Recent externally funded awards
December 2024
Includes grants, contracts and subcontracts awarded to KU-Lawrence investigators from external sponsors.
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Analytical Tools for Light-Initiated Zn2+ Signaling in Neurodegenerative Disease | $3,513,649 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | GOAT-mediated ghrelin deregulation and hippocampal pathology in Alzheimer's Disease | $2,782,030 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Integrating ecological dilution and genetic resistance to predict pathogen transmission, dynamics and impact | $2,500,000 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Political Economy Research Institute | Improvements in Measuring a 21st Century Care Economy | $1,171,397 |
| Francis, Lindsay | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2025 Local Technical Assistance Program LTAP | $776,426 |
| Graham, Allie | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Plasticity and Nitric Oxide Signaling: Identifying the Novel Adaptive Mechanisms Associated with Response to Hypoxia | $747,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Clinical Child Psychology Program / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Building Healthy Eating and Self-Esteem Together for University Students (BEST-U): A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of an mHealth Intervention for Binge-Spectrum Disorders | $715,516 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Kansas Board of Regents | KBOR Literacy Blueprint Research and Development | $616,670 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | Bimetallic Single-Site Heterogeneous Catalysts: A New Paradigm for Enhancing Reactivity in Olefin Metathesis | $602,669 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center | U.S. Department of Justice | FY24 University of Kansas Curriculum Integration Award | $500,000 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center | U.S. Department of Justice | FY24 Kansas Accreditation | $300,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Virginia | Small Molecule ERG Inhibitors for Prostate Cancer | $206,871 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Transportation Research Board | A Novel Constrained-Layer Damper for Wind-induced Vibration Mitigation of High-mast Illumination Poles | $140,000 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | American Chemical Society | Understanding the Effect of Oriented External Electrical Fields on the Intensification of Phase Transfer Catalysis Reactions at a Liquid-Liquid Interface | $125,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating and Projecting Long-Term HAB and Water Quality Trends in Federal Reservoirs in the Neosho, Ninnescah, Walnut, Verdigris, and Marais des Cygnes Basins | $100,000 |
| Luo, Bo | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Planning: DCL-EPSCOR: SaTC Frontier: Exploring the Synergy Between Generative AI and Cybersecurity | $100,000 |
| Shomaji, Sumaiya | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Deep AI Encoded ECGs for Cardiovascular Health Prediction and Explainability | $57,723 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Iowa | Joint Iowa-Kansas-Missouri-Nebraska Working Group for the Unification of pre-Illinoian Till Stratigraphy | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $49,263 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Economics Association | Survey and Focus Group Research in Support of AEA Co-Impact Design Grant | $38,500 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05407: "MEOW: The MIRI Early Obscured-AGN Wide Survey" | $34,362 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Clarifying the Drivers of Water-level Changes in the High Plains Aquifer in Western Kansas | $30,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Wichita State University | Plasmon-Enhanced Electrochemical Carbon Dioxide Reduction | $26,166 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Impact of Weight Loss on Alzheimers Disease Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome | $19,651 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | How big can you make a planet? Spectroscopic characterization of HD 206893B | $15,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 Women in Hardware and Systems Security (WISE) Workshop | $10,000 |
| Talbott, Jennifer | Spencer Museum of Art | Environment And Culture Partners (Ecp) | T/RH parameters in care for museum collections on energy consumption, costs, and emissions | $10,000 |
| Deng, Shiguang | Mechanical Engineering | New Faculty Research Development Award | AI-Driven Design for Advanced Manufacturing-Material-Structure Systems | $9,999 |
| Knight, Logan | Social Welfare | New Faculty Research Development Award | Altruism as a Survivor-Generated Intervention for Reducing Complex Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms and Increasing Resilience | $9,999 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | New Faculty Research Development Award | Investigating single-leg backward hopping on knee mechanics for improved clinical assessments following anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions | $9,997 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | New Faculty Research Development Award | Serious Emotional Disturbances (SED) and Medicaid Waiver Services: A Data Feasibility and Pilot Study | $9,987 |
| Norman, Lauren | Anthropology | New Faculty Research Development Award | Temporal trends in interregional interactions: Investigating the deep history of Van Tat Gwichin land use in northern Yukon, Canada | $9,985 |
| Presnell, Jason | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Morphological and genomic approaches to understanding ctenophore gut development | $9,923 |
| Guria, Sankha | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Automatic Program Synthesis with Correctness Guarantees | $9,562 |
| Wang, Han | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | NFRD: Building Interdisciplinary Collaborations for Privacy-Preserving Smart Communities | $8,214 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Understanding the benefits of the commonly expressed, disease-causing mutation of PTPN22 | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Preschool Development Grant Birth Through Five (PDG B-5) Renewal Grant 2024 | $3,297,177 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | NM STEM Ready Science Assessment | $2,632,188 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | XRP: OrCAS: Origins, Compositions, and Atmospheres of Sub-neptunes | $639,996 |
| Peterson, Dana | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Geographic Information System (GIS) & Remote Sensing Support Services | $633,195 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | Virginia Commonwealth University | Rehabilitation Research and Training Center on Employment Among People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $290,000 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Michigan Department of Labor Economic Opportunity | Michigan Impact Grant Program Analysis | $285,029 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | FY25: Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $212,984 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | National Science Foundation | EPSCoR Research Fellows: NSF: Understanding the effects of tunable media on mass transport during catalytic conversion of polyolefins | $204,819 |
| Shoshani, Manar | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | LEAPS-MPS: Cooperative Transformations of N-Heterocycles with Heterometallic Complexes | $174,458 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) Year 5 | $142,128 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tfi Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2025 | $116,786 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Panchromatic Phase Curve of the Highest-S/N Hot Neptune | $115,000 |
| Baum, Kristen | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | University of Oklahoma | CHIRRP RCN: Building a Community of Practice for Co-Producing Resilient Socio-Ecological Systems in Grasslands | $55,773 |
| Grube, Whitney | Social Welfare | Everybody Matters | Evaluation Plan for Everybody Matters | $52,220 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas and Kansas Counties | $50,000 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Playa recharge characterization by nuclear magnetic resonance profiling | $50,000 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Institute for Bioengineering Research | Axioforce | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $38,805 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $30,000 |
| Lines, Brian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | International Facility Management Association | Early Involvement of Facility Managers in Capital Projects | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05959, "KRONOS: Keys to Revealing the Origin and Nature Of sub-neptune Systems" | $20,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Presto Geosystems | Experimental Evaluation of Geocell-stabilized Granular Bases | $12,500 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd. | Evaluation of 2205 Stainless Steel Reinforcement | $3,600 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 2024 - 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,022,705 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | FuSe2 Topic 3: Co-design of sub-2nm wide-bandgap semiconductor memristors for neuromorphic computing | $1,825,740 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Avium Llc | In Situ Separator Electrode Assembly (SEA) Formation with Non-Platinum Group Metal Catalysts for High Current Density Liquid Alkaline Electrolysis | $1,240,000 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | National Multiple Sclerosis Society | Defining the role of cholesterol ester metabolism in remyelination | $835,102 |
| Shafer, Robin | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Multi-modal sensory feedback mechanisms of fine and gross motor control in autism spectrum disorders | $795,743 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Building and testing predictions of context dependence of synergistic benefits to plants from multiple symbionts | $690,103 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS) - Part C tiny-k Infant/Toddler Program | $623,260 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas TRIO Training Program for Absolute Priority 1 (KU TTP-1) | $619,010 |
| Li, Jian | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Human-centered Steel Bridge Inspection enabled by Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence | $600,000 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | University of Texas-Austin | Disentangling Intervention Practices Aligned with Motivational, Agentic, and Self Theories (MAST): An Integrative Meta-Analysis and Scoping Review | $517,506 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Kansas State University | Small Molecule Protease Inhibitors against MERS-CoV and Coronaviruses of Pandemic Potential | $459,000 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) Year 3 | $432,875 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: AHA! AI Hardware Adventures for High Schoolers | $354,936 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Strain-mediated Ca diffusion and cation exchange for high-performance superconductor nanocomposites | $317,661 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2025 | $300,716 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | University of Montana | FY24 Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative (YSEALI) Academic Fellowship | $285,325 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Washington State University | Disability Perspectives on the Adverse Health Effects of Medical Ableism | $273,780 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Texas - Dallas | Meeting the needs of young Hispanic autistic children: Developing a culturally and linguistically sensitive intervention to alleviate core social challenges | $261,856 |
| Newell, Bradley | School of Pharmacy / Pharmacy Practice | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Program | $224,914 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Restoring with culturally significant plants to strengthen food webs for pollinators and Tribal community well-being | $221,793 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Atomically-engineered heterostructures for electronic readout of spin valley quantum states using plasmon decay | $220,807 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | Washington University Saint Louis | Li-Air Redox Flow Battery Using Ionic Liquids | $216,671 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | A statewide inventory of the dominant reservoir sedimentation sources to inform targeted watershed conservation and upstream mitigation practices | $210,387 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Small-Scale, Transportable Electrochemical Ammonia Synthesis System using only Local Groundwater and Electricity | $171,969 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Early Impact Virginia | System enhancements in the delivery of HRSA funded MIECHV Innovation requirements | $144,622 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | FY25 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $139,104 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Oklahoma | ELEVATE: Equipping Learning, Empowering Vision, Achieving Transitions, and Engaging Families - A Doctoral Leadership Initiative | $122,851 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: COBRE Phase II ADM Core | $116,281 |
| Barton, Jared | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY25 | $108,690 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Kickapoo TOR Return to Community Program | $100,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $99,929 |
| Alexander, Warren | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Collins Aerospace | Industrial Scale Proof Engineering for Critical Trustworthy Applications (INSPECTA) | $97,500 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease | $89,878 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers & Statewide Tax Units Database: (ORKA FY 25) | $85,637 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Quantitative Analysis of Trends in Kansas' Hydroclimatic Compound Extremes | $74,959 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Specimen Management System Development and Updates for U.S. National Fungus Collections | $62,492 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $50,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | KS Department of Labor Equitable Transition Model | $36,641 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Nextera Energy | The Economic Impacts of Renewable Energy Developments on Jackson County, KS | $32,194 |
| Mantzavinos, Dionyssios | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Prairie Analysis Seminar 2024 - 2025 | $25,376 |
| McDonald, Margarethe | Speech-Language-Hearing /Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Predicting experience-specific bilingual speech development using machine learning | $25,000 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Development of Crk and CrkL inhibitors using the structure-function relationship study for glioblastoma treatment | $20,437 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Sustaining the USDA Symbiota Portal and ARS Entomopathogenic Fungal Cultures Collection (ARSEF). | $18,475 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Selectquote | Exploring the Association between E-Broker Services and Consumer Choice | $16,804 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Implementation of the New Pediatric Obesity Clinical Practice Guideline in Rural Families and Clinics: A Randomized Clinical Trial | $16,077 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of Kansas | $10,887 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Talk with Me Baby: Leveraging Well-Child Care to Enhance the Early Home Language Environment | $9,388 |
| Herrick, Imogen | Curriculum & Teaching / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Psychological Association | Photovoice for Climate Change Education: Exploring Creativity and Cognitive-Emotional Responses Across the Americas | $8,500 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Improving Effectiveness of Moisture Reduction in Unsaturated Soils with High Fines Contents Using Coated Wicking Geotextiles | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas' Kansas City Kansas Public Schools GEAR UP (KCKPS GU) | $33,600,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Wise Institute for Sustainable Engineering | National Science Foundation | Center: NSF Engineering Research Center for Environmentally Applied Refrigerant Technology Hub (EARTH) | $30,936,910 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas' Kansas City Missouri Public Schools GEAR UP (KCMO GU) | $10,640,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee DLM: 2024 - 2029 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math) + Additional Services | $5,614,149 |
| Holmstrom, Erik | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Uncovering the Biochemical Mechanisms of Riboregulatory Interaction Involving the Hepatitis C Virus 3 X RNA | $1,881,010 |
| Kelly, John | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | EDGE CMT: The genomic basis of male fitness variation in wild populations of Drosophila | $1,867,605 |
| Christine, Mary | Office of Faculty Affairs / Institute for Leadership Studies | U.S. Department of State | Study of the U.S.. Institutes for Young Women Leaders: | $1,638,692 |
| Mazza, Stephen | Law Administration | U.S. Department of Justice | University of Kansas School of Law Veterans Legal Support Clinic | $1,600,000 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY24 | $1,134,925 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | University of Florida | iDigBio: Sustaining the digitization, mobilization, accessibility, and use of biodiversity specimen data in US. museum and academic collections | $1,025,894 |
| Ovchinnikov, Dmitry | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Engineering high-temperature magnetic quantum phases in atomically thin materials | $952,000 |
| Dalton, Hans | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Identifying New Therapeutics and Molecular Mechanisms in Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation | $731,550 |
| Bichelmeyer, Barbara | Provost Office / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | National Science Foundation | Louis Stokes new STEM Pathways Implementation - Only Alliance: Aligning STEM Trainees for Enterprising Research in Kansas and Nebraska | $700,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | Fiscal Year 2023 Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program | $451,455 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Acquire data on ethnobotanical uses for inclusion in PLANTS. Multiyear effort that addresses some underserved groups, such as American Indians and their uses of plants on Tribal lands | $400,000 |
| Kalbas, James | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Trace element characterization of Permian evaporites | $399,208 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SHF: Medium: Effortless Data Locality Through Near-memory On-the fly Data Transformation | $396,000 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Understanding the roles of Co2-tunable media on the hydrothermal deconstruction of poly(ethylene) terphthalate | $300,000 |
| Hayes, Melva | Life Span Institute | Kansas City, City of Missouri | Qualitative Community Evaluation of Violence Prevention Outreach Programs | $283,804 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Converting Inconsistent and Heterogenous Biomass and Municipal Solid Wastes Into De-Mineralized, and Uniform Feedstock for Catalytic Processing to Renewable Fuels and Chemicals | $276,446 |
| Gonzalez, Victor | Undergraduate Biology Program / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: IRES: International Research Experiences on Tropical Plant-Pollinator interactions in a Changing World | $268,066 |
| Conrad, Kathryn | English / Hall Center for the Humanities | National Endowment For Humanities | AI & Digital Literacy: Toward an Inclusive and Empowering Teaching Practice | $216,218 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services | Home Visiting Data Collection and Management - Nebraska (2024-2029) | $138,263 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Digital Learning Ecosystem for Justice-Impacted Communities | $129,786 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Mutal Coupling Wideband Array Calibration | $99,999 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Library of Congress | Citizen Journalism for All Students: Making Journalism in Action's Library of Congress resources more accessible and relevant for students with disabilities | $99,996 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Institute For The Advancement Of Family Support Professionals | Institute Maintenance | $99,931 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Rutgers University | An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence | $83,164 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry | Kansas State University | Illuminating Dark Antibiotics: A Novel Synthesis of Streptothricin F and First Total Synthesis of BD-12 and Albothricin | $76,500 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: COBRE Phase II BME Core | $60,354 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | JWST-GO-05365, "Identifying, counting, and mapping YSOs in Sgr B2: our Galaxy's most massive molecular cloud | $57,111 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 7) | $50,094 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Grant Writing Assistance to Kansas Non-profit Organizations 2024 | $49,500 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Automated Crash Mapping (ACM) Process | $42,418 |
| Fry, Andrew | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Boston Children'S Hospital | Female Athlete Program and Jayhawk Athletic Performance Lab GRA Funding Agreement, DeLeo | $36,313 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY25 | $32,318 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration / International Programs | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program | $25,033 |
| Kim, Hyunjoon | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Novel TLR7/8 agonists for bladder cancer immunotherapy | $25,000 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Anthropology / Kansas Geological Survey | University of Oklahoma | A Geoarchaeological Assessment of the Canes Area and Newblock Park in Association with the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Graves Investigation | $22,807 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY24 | $20,000 |
| Oakley, Berl | Molecular Biosciences | Kansas State University | Heterologous expression of Aspergillus fumigatus cryptic secondary metabolite biosynthetic gene clusters | $20,000 |
| Gover, Carlton | Anthropology / Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | NK-KU Contract for Curation Services | $12,607 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Advancing Tunnel Detection Capabilities, Accuracy, and Efficiency Through Target Specific Partnering of FWI with Computational Intelligence, Modal Separation, and Hardware/Software Enhancements | $15,168,571 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Tech Assistance for Kansas CCLC Grantees | $1,928,419 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Hampshire Department of Education | New Hampshire: Dynamic Learning Maps (DLM) assessment program | $1,886,500 |
| Mack, Katya | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Institutes of Health | Gene regulation and the genetic basis of complex traits | $1,869,231 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EDGE: CMT: Linking genomic variation to complex floral trait adaptation across a species boundary | $1,346,335 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Kansas Youth Transition Network: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance Transition and Employment Outcomes for Youth (Self-Determination Training) | $1,150,000 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Information Technology Office | DASC FY25-FY27 GIS Service Support Contract | $840,000 |
| Reuman, Daniel | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Understanding impacts of climatic variability on distributions of species | $800,000 |
| Shoshani, Manar | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAREER: CO2 Reduction by Well-Defined Multimetallic Architectures with Earth-Abundant Metals | $772,515 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children'S Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $623,836 |
| Fardad, Shima | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | DMR:TMRP: Transient Photonics in Optically Actuated Soft-Matter | $492,489 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: SaTC: CORE: Medium: KIPPER: Learning-Guided Hardware IP Protection | $400,000 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | Kansas Youth Transition Network: Strengthening Partnerships to Advance Transition and Employment Outcomes for Youth (Evaluation) | $367,943 |
| Thompson, William | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Expanding the Functionality and Accessibility of Software for Diagnostic Measurement | $347,371 |
| Gonzalez, Victor | Undergraduate Biology Program / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Developing a research hub for automated bee identification, data sharing, and citizen science using computer vision | $342,866 |
| Olcott, Alison | Geology | Nasa | Interagency Personnel Agreement for Alison Olcott | $340,065 |
| Nguyen, Trung | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Molecular Structures and Electrochemical Activity of Supersaturated Electrolytes for High-Energy-Density Redox Flow Batteries | $249,999 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Genentech, Inc. | Delivery, Retention, and Efficacy BDNF-VG1 and mAb-VG1 | $182,085 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program 2024 | $171,450 |
| Dozier, Claudia | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | Technical Assistance for GoodLife (2024-2025) | $160,296 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Tensar International Inc. | Rigid Pavement Testing with A Mechanically Stabilized Layer in the Large Box for Plate Load Testing | $120,000 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | Portland State University | Transition Coalition Self-Study (TCSS+): Enhancing a Team-Based Professional Development to Improve Outcomes | $110,494 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | California Institute of Technology | Chemical approaches to understanding chondroitin sulfate glycosaminoglycans and their roles in brain plasticity and pathology | $109,242 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-5: Correlating driven pile resistance with drive point test and measurement-while-drilling data | $97,717 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence 5: DRPP Award | $91,221 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: ClimPraxis: Creating a Climate Community of Praxis for Mid-Career Researchers | $86,008 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-7: Developing Specifications for Shale Breakdown | $79,881 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU-10: Stabilizing Leaking Sand Behind MSE Walls | $77,481 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Guidance for Implementing Utility Investigations in Alignment with Project Delivery | $75,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment For The Arts | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival and Powwow | $70,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Flood Extent Download Tool Development | $50,000 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Testosterone replacement therapy (TRT) is the cornerstone treatment for male hypogonadism | $43,605 |
| Martin, Jeremy | Mathematics | Los Alamos Laboratory | Fellowship for Sebastian Henderson | $40,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | Florida Gulf Coast University | Florida Professional Learning Support | $37,235 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Expanding Biodiesel Education and Utilization through the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium | $24,456 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting Year 5 | $22,030 |
| Gover, Carlton | Anthropology / Biodiversity Institute | New South Associates | NWK Curation FY24-25 | $20,296 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Skeletons in the Cluster: Unveiling the Stellar Mass Backbone of z=1.6 Galaxies | $19,419 |
| Jongman, Allard | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: Clear Speech Productions and Intelligibility Benefit for Native and Non-native Speakers and Listeners | $16,998 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Fair Play Policy Institute | Standard Occupation Classification Federal Register Notice Letter Research | $15,000 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Garney Construction | Garney Work Zone Geo-Fencing System Design | $15,000 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Stony Brook University | Planning: Mid-scale Research Infrastructure-1 Community-scale Testbeds to Accelerate Climate Adaptation and Disaster Reduction Research | $12,941 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | American Herbal Products Association | Oshá, Ligusticum porteri, Mapping and Co-Occurring Plants in Colorado National Forests | $6,000 |
| Appelman, Alyssa | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Pennsylvania State University | Transparency effects: Audience perceptions of journalists ethics training disclosure | $5,000 |
| Lewis, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Particle Physics on the Plains 2024 | $5,000 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Raajratna Metal Industries Ltd. | Evaluation of 2304 Stainless Steel Reinforcement | $3,600 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Society For The Study of Evolution | Recombination rate variation in the Hawaiian Metrosideros | $2,500 |
| Zhong, Cuncong | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of Gut-Immune Interactions in Aging-Associated Bladder Cancer | $2,500 |
| Kang, Joonmo | Social Welfare | Korean American Social Work Educator Association | Community-Engaged Qualitative Inquiry: Exploring Individual and Systemic Factors in a Farmer Training Program for Refugees. | $2,000 |
| Song, Yu | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | International Society Of Biomechanics In Sports | 2024 Internship Grant - International Society of Biomechanics in Sport (ISBS) | $2,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence 5: DRPP Mentor | $1,913 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) at the University of Kansas | $4,285,242 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Institutes of Health | Molecular mechanisms and evolution of natural telomeric variation | $1,881,098 |
| Smith, Sean | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project AI-Score: Artificial Intelligence Scored Composition to Improve Outcomes for Written Expression | $1,875,000 |
| Washburn, Jocelyn | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project iSTAR: An Integrated, Strategic Technology-based Adaptive wRiting Program | $1,875,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma DLM 2024 - 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,562,462 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | AccelNet-Implementation Phase 1: MICROBENet-Net: Multi-Institute Collaborative Research on BElowground plant-microbial interactions Network of Networks | $1,500,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | Early Career Doctorates, Postdoctoral Researchers and the Scientific Enterprise | $1,030,093 |
| Byers, Kaela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Prevention Grant Evaluation Families First Prevention Services Act | $849,188 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2024- 2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $690,440 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $471,111 |
| Medvedev, Mikhail | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Extreme Quantum-Electrodynamic Plasma Physics | $430,000 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | U.S. Army | Brain-Inspired Human-Robot Cooperative Autonomy via Distributed Inference and Trust | $250,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Breadth and mechanism of Wolbachia-based inhibition of fungal infection in Drosophila | $242,843 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Using the National Survey on Health and Disability (NSHD) to Assess the Experiences of LGBTQ+ People with Disabilities | $200,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas IDeA Network of Biomedical Research Excellence (K-INBRE): Consolidated Projects | $174,420 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $144,839 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | American Chemical Society | Confined Phase Behavior of Fluid Mixtures in Mesopores Using Gravimetric Microbalance and Calorimeter Measurements | $125,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $120,050 |
| Ortiz, Kelsey | Life Span Institute | State of Washington Office of Superintendent | OSPI Sped and Learning Options Online Learning and Students with Disabilities | $116,529 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM: 2024-2029 Operational/Testing (SCI) | $112,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | NASA | A3C RVs: Atmospheres, Activity, Architectures, and Compositions of Sub-Neptunes with KPF | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans 2024-25 | $109,079 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Liquid Biopsy using Tumor Specific Extracellular Vesicles for the Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | $99,919 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Impact of Double Centerline Rumble Strips (CLRS) on Driver Behavior | $85,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | Radar Signal Processing | $60,000 |
| Treml, John | School of Professional Studies / KU Edwards Campus | Bioindustrial Manufacturing And Design Ecosystem | BioMADE BUILD Academic Challenge (BBAC) | $50,000 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Wake Forest University | Support for leadership and character education programs | $46,040 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Molecular Graphics and Modeling Laboratory Core Lab | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Heating up "cold" tumor: improve cancer immunotherapy by targeting RNA-binding protein HuR | $38,250 |
| Blum, Michael | Geology | Columbia University | From Source to Sink: Investigating Pleistocene Himalaya-sourced Megaturbidites from IODP Expedition 354 in the distal Bengal Fan using OSL/IRSL Dating | $30,000 |
| Franz, Nico | Biodiversity Institute | Arizona State University | National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON): Operations (Biorepository) | $27,947 |
| Hotze, Eileen | Undergraduate Biology Program / Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | MicrobioME: a CURE for Staphylococcus aureus | $22,950 |
| Pursel, Sydney | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | "NDN-UITY", a Native Fashion Mural Installation by Mona Cliff | $20,000 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality / Hall Center for the Humanities | Social Science Research Council | Consent in Sexual Violence: Cross-cultural Perspectives in Japan and the US | $20,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Completing a Survey of Wide Companions in Short-Period Exoplanet Systems | $15,600 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $14,071 |
| Kemper, Kate | Center for Service Learning | Neo Philanthropy | Ask Every Student Implementation Grant | $3,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Enhancing Secondary/Transition Outcomes Using Check and Connect with the Self-Determined Learning Model of Instruction | $4,000,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Partnership to Build Teacher Capacity to Promote Early Language Learning in Infants and Toddlers with and at Risk for Disabilities | $4,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri DLM: 2024-2025 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,212,569 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | KDADS DSP Career Ladder | $999,924 |
| Leuschen, Carlton | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Norwegian Polar Institute | Development of a RF & Microwave Radar for UAV Based Remote Sensing of Snow and Ice | $740,769 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | NSF-NFRF: Retreating from risk (RFR): Decision-supports for the equitable implementation of retreat to build climate resilience | $650,910 |
| Fewins, Joanna | Kansas Public Radio | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | KPR Broadcast Infrastructure Modernization | $547,000 |
| Thompson, Ward | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Direct Calculation of Activation Energies and Entropies for Chemical Dynamics | $470,465 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Role of ICP0 Dimerization in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis | $430,406 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Arizona State Department of Education | AZ College & Career Competency (CCC) Team | $388,800 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | High Plains Aquifer Index Well Program | $318,500 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri College and Career Competency Project | $268,686 |
| Brewer II, Joseph | Environmental Studies Program / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Purdue University | The Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership | $245,920 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) | $244,488 |
| Cox, Kara | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kansas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $225,000 |
| Parsons, Sheena | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | Open Spaces: Baldwin Woods Public Access Trails at the Rice Woodland | $169,698 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Harvest Activity | $152,504 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Restoring Soil Health With Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Improving Biodiversity And Soil Structure, Nutrients, And Microbes In Restored Lands | $119,880 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Data Science Core Facility | $114,750 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Base Flood Elevation Portal | $92,983 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | The Nature Conservancy | Phase 2: Unified Approach to Groundwater Modeling of Streamflow Depletion | $84,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Educational Credit Management Corporation (Ecmc) Group | ECMC FAFSA Student Support Strategy | $72,911 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Central Florida | Preparation through Residencies and Enhanced Partnerships: LEAD PREP | $49,896 |
| Goldstein, Robert | Geology / Geology | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Diagenetic Controls on Reservoir Character of the Lower Cretaceous Habshan Formation, UAE (Abu Dhabi) and Oman | $39,067 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | OK Department of Human Services Children & Family | Black Feathers Evolution | $34,718 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences | Ohio State University | Functional and mechanistic delineation of HuR-Wisp1 signaling on myofibroblast activity | $34,427 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative REU Site: TRUST: Training Research for Undergraduates in Secure and Trusted Systems | $30,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Central Florida | Preparing Next Generation Special Education Leadership Scholars: LEAD NEXT | $28,640 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Rti International | University of Kansas Subject Matter Expert Support for NLSY27 | $22,568 |
| Ko, Chien-Ho | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Allan Myers | Work zone geo-fencing system analysis and design | $20,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Professional Engineering Consultants | Lawrence Climate Change Tool | $15,908 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture Design | Johnson County Department of Health And Environment | Connection our County Farmers Markets: An Action Plan for Johnson County, KS | $14,994 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Monitoring of Tuttle Creek Reservoir Water Injection Dredging Demonstration in the Kansas and Big Blue Rivers | $14,923 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | Ku Center For Genomics | Genomic alterations in stressed C. elegans displaying synapse degeneration | $12,500 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Ku Center For Genomics | Martina Dalikova post doc award: Small piwi-interacting RNAs (piRNA) in the evolution of the W chromosome in moths and butterflies | $10,000 |
| Holmes, Maja | School of Public Affairs & Administration | West Virginia University | WVU ADVANCE Oklahoma State University Change Agent Group Development for Transformation to Retain Diverse Faculty 2023, | $6,426 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Association For Psychological Science | An Open-source and Web-based Introduction to Generalized Linear Modeling | $5,000 |
| Devlin, John | Geology | Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership | Comparison of shoreline seepage velocities in the lakebed at Unnamed Lake, near Bemidji, MN | $4,984 |
| Glor, Richard | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society of Systematic Biologists | Using next generation sequence data for species discovery and delimitation in a highly diversified Neotropical lizard genus (Sphaerodactylus) | $4,000 |
| Matsunaga, Kelly | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Botanical Society of America | 2024 Bill Dahl Graduate Student Research Award for Austin Nguyen | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | National Institutes of Health | Evaluating a powerful genetic mapping framework to discover lifespan extension genes in Drosophila | $617,074 |
| Elles, Christopher | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Broadband Two-Photon Absorption Spectroscopy for in situ Measurement and Characterization of Heterogeneous Samples | $507,760 |
| Perkins, Jonathan | Open Language Resource Center / Office of Research | Institute of International Education | 2024-2025: Building Language Capacity and Cultural Competency to Meet National Security Needs: The University of Kansas Language Training Center | $450,000 |
| Lubin, Terra | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Targeting microbiomes for optimal climate resilience: a case study of arbuscular mycorrhizae and drought resistance | $300,000 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2024 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $278,335 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Sunflower Electric Power | Follow-up Assessment of the Great Bend Station (Sunflower Electric Power Corporation) Selenium Discharge on a Tributary of Dry Walnut Creek (Barton Co., KS) | $230,000 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | On enumerative and tautological invariants defined by perfect obstruction theories | $194,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | DAISEY Training and Technical Assistance | $191,550 |
| Fischer, Christopher | Physics and Astronomy | Zenoleap Llc | STTR Phase I: High-sensitivity flexible quantum dots/graphene x-ray detectors and imaging systems | $86,323 |
| Pourladian, Bamdad | Mechanical Engineering | Honeywell | Polymer 3D Printed Presure Vessels, Compressive Lap Shear Test Fixtures, Modeling Fluid and Mixing Behavior, and Design and Additive Manuafacturing of Fluidic Channels for Synthesis | $58,830 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend Ii, Inc. | WEND Montessori Research Retreat 2024 | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2025 | $40,000 |
| Bredikhina, Nataliya | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | National College Athletic Assoication | Online Resilience: Empowering Student-Athletes in Navigating Social Media Feedback with Intervention Techniques | $35,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Kansas Board of Regents | Workforce Development in Data Science: Supplement to KU's Big Data / Women's Health COBRE | $30,445 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | Innovative Use of the High-Resolution K (HRK) Logging for Optimizing Dewatering System Designs | $30,000 |
| Gunda, Nikhila | KU Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2024 KDOT Innovative Technologies Summit | $29,000 |
| Shomaji, Sumaiya | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Towards Building a Research Program Focused on Tracking and Surveillance of Hardware and Human | $20,000 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | Group parent-infant music-based intervention to support pre-linguistic language acquisition for infants at-risk for language delay due to social determinants of health | $19,981 |
| McDonald, Margarethe | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | New Faculty Research Development Award | The bilingual speech perception-production link and bilingual child speech database | $19,587 |
| Onasch, Whitney | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Bar Association | Kansas Bar Association Survey of State Judges | $10,000 |
| Adams, Melinda | Indigenous Studies / Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Building Tribal Partnerships for Indigenous-led Cultural Fire Research in Kansas | $8,000 |
| Cook, Matthew | Design | New Faculty Research Development Award | Philodendron Animated Short Project | $8,000 |
| Gonzalez, Tiffany | History | New Faculty Research Development Award | Irma Rangel: the First Mexican American Feminist State Representative and Feminist Borderlands Politics | $8,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Leveraging Big Data to Improve Women's Health (BD-WH) | $11,361,418 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | A Novel Method to Enhance Drug Delivery to the Brain | $2,183,627 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | CPF Multi-Purpose Facility | $1,398,996 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project | $1,019,889 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Monitoring High Priority Salt Jugs near the Irsik & Doll Elevator, BNSF RR, V&S RR, and William Street with Supporting VSPs in Hutchinson, Kansas | $522,992 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Realizing High Temperature Exciton Condensates at Organic/2D van der Waals Interfaces | $503,486 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Ierus Technologies, Inc. | Optimized Waveforms for X-band Missile-Defense Radars - Phase II | $450,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | MEGA Mass Assembly at Cosmic Noon: MIRI EGS Galaxy and AGN Survey -JWST-GO Proposal 03794 | $402,406 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving and Inventorying Kansas Wireline Logs and Geochemical Analysis Related to Critical Minerals | $172,780 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | University of Minnesota | Robust incentive design for sustainable agricultural systems | $119,466 |
| Schrock, Steven | Engineering Administration / Transportation Center | Michigan State University | 2023 Work Zone Safety Grant | $102,234 |
| Changstrom, Jessica | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Building Capacity to Produce Highly Qualified STEM Teachers | $99,999 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Developing Procedures to Implement Advanced Technologies for Monitoring Deformations of Plastic Deformations of Plasitc Pipes under Loads | $92,973 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Brandeis University | Community Living Policy Center | $75,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Ashrae | 1934-TRP, A Survey Study on the Development and Application of Data-Driven Model Predictive Control in Buildings | $42,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Plus Power Resources LLC | The Economic Impacts of a Grid-Level Energy Storage Development on Kansas and Kansas Communities | $38,250 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences | University of Minnesota | Control of Chromosome Segregation by DNA Topoisomerase II | $37,474 |
| Long, Haiying | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kipp Kansas City | KIPP Endeavor--Innovative Approaches to Literacy Project | $33,743 |
| Ercums, Kris | Spencer Museum of Art | Research GO | STREET NIHONGA: The Art of Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani | $30,000 |
| Velasco, Francisca | Visual Art | Research GO | Reclaiming Home: Remembering the Topeka Bottoms | $30,000 |
| Corson, Elizabeth | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Research GO | Recovering Ammonia from Wastewater: Electrolyte Engineering for Selective and Efficient Nitrate Reduction | $29,998 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Research GO | Climate Change Impacts on Terrestrial Vertebrates of the Great Plains: Measuring Biodiversity Change on Continental Scales | $29,448 |
| Mohr, Zachary | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Research GO | Refocusing Election Administration Cost Research to 20/20: Understanding the Cost Structure and Cost Dynamics of Election Administration into the 2020s | $28,977 |
| Zhao, Hui | Physics and Astronomy | Research GO | Controlling Dipolar Excitons in Van Der Waals Materials for Future Excitonic Devices | $28,312 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $27,307 |
| Loecke, Terrance | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Research GO | Geochemical and microbial controls on methane emissions during variable hydrologic conditions | $25,289 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine 2024 | $25,098 |
| Johnson, Mathew | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Conference: 2024 KUMUNU-ISU Conference one PDE, Dynamical Systems and Applications | $23,031 |
| Ferreira, Rosana | Molecular Biosciences | New Faculty Research Development Award | Bacterial interactions and their role in the skin microbiome composition | $20,000 |
| Jackson, Stephen | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies | New Faculty Research Development Award | The World in American Education, 1747-1900 | $19,500 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research GO | Hydrologic Stable States Analysis | $17,546 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas | Statewide Independent Living Council of Kansas (SILCK) Needs Survey | $15,000 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $10,887 |
| Agusto, Folashade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Missouri - Columbia | Geospatial Epidemiology and Disease Ecology of Tick-borne Diseases | $9,892 |
| Galvane, Linda | East Asian Languages & Cultures | New Faculty Research Development Award | Excremental History of Japanese Literature and Culture | $8,000 |
| Han, Xu | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | New Faculty Research Development Award | Phase change material integrated building envelope to enhance thermal resilience of buildings in vulnerable communities | $7,960 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Sunflower Foundation | Kansas Fights Addiction 2023 - Comprehensive Needs Assessment | $500,000 |
| Benson Jr, David | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment | $465,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Geology / Kansas Geological Survey | Foundation For Food And Agriculture Research (Ffar) | Integrating on-farm solar arrays to enhance groundwater resources, produce energy, and diversify farm income | $451,845 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Robert Wood Johnson | Examining the economic-security and health-equity impact on marginalized communities in the Kansas City, MO, metro region of state preemptive policy | $382,639 |
| Van Vleck, Erik | Mathematics | Office of Naval Research | Envisioning Data Assimilation for Adaptive Mesh Computational Models and Intermittency | $323,930 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Title V Needs Assessment TO #24067 | $299,768 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Columbia University | Acute challenge and open-label trial of Pimavanszerin treatment for behavioral inflexibility in autism | $244,032 |
| Rodriguez-Morales, Fernando | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Honeywell | Development, Testing and Improvement of Components & Systems for Next-Generation Radar | $210,000 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | University of Oregon | Technical Assistance Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports VI | $200,000 |
| Hartley, Meredith | Chemistry | Albany Medical College | Role of a Fatty Acid Chaperone in Schwann Cell Myelination | $128,725 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Iowa Department of Human Services | FY24 Community Check Box Evaluation System for Partnerships for Success to Prevent Alcohol Misuse (FPS-PAM) PFS PAM | $87,946 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | University of Michigan | RCN: GOLD-EN: Virtual Ice Community Engagement | $63,573 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 497, Lawrence | Safe and Supportive Schools | $52,474 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 500, Kansas City | Status Update Review for the Special Education Department at Kansas City USD 500 | $48,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Exalt Rd Llc | Echinacea Seed Yield Research | $34,326 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The National Diabetes Prevention Program in Rural Communities | $30,306 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences | Research Go | Role of SUMO modification in the structural organization of mitotic chromosomes required for accurate genome transmission in mitosis | $30,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Neural Correlates of Art-Episodic Future Thinking (ArtEFT) | $30,000 |
| Rong, Panying | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Toward a Precision Medicine Approach to Improve the Assessment and Management of Progressive Motor Speech Disorders | $29,975 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas | $27,000 |
| Raza, Muhammad | Child Language Program / Life Span Institute | Research Go | Family-Based Genetic Study of Specific Language Impairment (SLI) | $24,973 |
| Fleming, Kandace | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Modeling Longitudinal Reading Comprehension in Adolescence:Protective and Risk Factors | $18,802 |
| Paek, Bomin | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | The Academy of Korean Studies | Application of visual attention and emotional responses for sport viewership in virtual reality: cross-national research between Korean and US sport consumers | $13,200 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | A rare test of planet formation models: the obliquity of the 540-day transiting giant planet HIP 41378 f | $7,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Mechanisms and biomarkers of disease progression in Fragile X-associated tremor/ataxia syndrome (FXTAS) | $3,107,586 |
| Martin, Susan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico Assessment of Science Readiness | $2,683,109 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Ground Water Quality Monitoring Network | $1,006,000 |
| Baer, Sara | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | National Science Foundation | Predicting effects of interannual variability in climate an drought on plant community outcomes resilience and soil carbon using temporally replicated grassland reconstructions. | $780,658 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Airborne electromagnetic survey of Groundwater Management District No. 4 | $700,000 |
| Duncan, William | Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track K: Improving Water Quality and Equity through Sensor Data and Machine Learning Models | $650,000 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: RACING - Resolving the Activity Cycle in the Nearest Galaxies | $482,550 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | Temple University | Tech Accelerator | $326,144 |
| Owen, Jonathan | Institute for Information Sciences | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Advanced Radar Waveforms & Processing | $284,690 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | OASIS Caregiver Training | $221,886 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | Evaluation of KSU Project RAICES | $180,000 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Network Of User-engaged Researchers building Interdisciplinary Scientific infrastructures for Healthy food (NOURISH) | $99,379 |
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Understanding how caregivers shape reciprocal communication with nonspeaking autistic children | $76,859 |
| Holt, Christina | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Sexual Violence Prevention Community-Based Valuation | $75,000 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $67,416 |
| Ahn, Yoonjung | Geography and Atmospheric Science | Florida State University | Understanding the Effects of Climate Change on Environmental Hazards in Overburdened Communities | $55,196 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Health Foundation | KU Center for Digital Inclusion | $50,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oakland University | NRT-HDR: Using a Data Analytics Framework to Merge STEM and Entrepreneurial Training | $49,550 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 2024 Jr. LPC Distinguished Researcher Award - Recipient: Georgios Krintiras (PI: M. Murray) | $48,617 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Oregon State University | Guidelines for Digital Technologies and Systems for Remote Construction Inspection for Highway Infrastructure Projects | $47,916 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | COBRE CEO Core: Implementation Science and Equity | $41,094 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 5: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $40,000 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Revealing our past faux PAHs: unveiling the hidden drivers of ISM conditions at cosmic noon JWST-GO-04192.003 | $26,073 |
| Hall, Amber | Psychology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Developing a Representative Cohort to study Midlife Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease | $10,554 |
| Mosley Jr, Nelson | KU Police Department | Kansas Department of Transportation | Impaired Driving Deterrence Project (IDDP): University of Kansas | $6,500 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | American Academy of Pediatrics | Act Early Ambassador 2023-2024 | $6,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | COBRE ETHICS Core: Implementation Science and Equity | $5,858 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Health Equity and Rural Education (HERE!) Clinical Trial | $5,785 |
| Drake, Phillip | English / Center for Service Learning | Campus Compact | 2023-24 Newman Civic Fellowship Mini-Grant | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM English Language, Mathematics and Science Alternative Assessment Test Administration and Consortium Services 2024 - 2026 | $3,160,296 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | FLITE: STEM Coaching | $1,858,624 |
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Sunflower Foundation | Kansas Fights Addiction 2023 - Comprehensive Needs Assessment | $1,500,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | The genetic basis of divergence in immune defense between species | $1,300,000 |
| Tuck, Kathleen | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Texas-Austin | Preparing Early Childhood Special Education Leaders for Diverse Settings (Project EARLY) | $1,250,000 |
| Batza, Catherine | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies | The Andrew W Mellon Foundation | Trans Studies at the Commons | $1,000,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Dynamic connectivity: a research and educational frontier for sustainable environmental management under climate and land use uncertainty | $609,734 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Nitrogen exchange and removal in riparian wetlands - the role of vegetation | $577,443 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center - 2024 | $321,548 |
| Peelaers, Hartwin | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Computational Design of High-Performing V2O5 Cathodes for Zn-ion batteries | $288,878 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Data Access and Support Center (DASC) GIS Mapping Integration - FY2024 | $261,872 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Templeton Religion Trust | Intellectual Humility, Courage, and Religious Literacy and their Roles in Covenantal Pluralism | $252,062 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Technologies to Support Aging Among People with Long-Term Disabilities (TechSAge) | $198,554 |
| Bowman-James, Kristin | Chemistry | Sandia National Laboratories | Cryptand Molecular Cavities to Capture and Chemically Process CO2 | $111,200 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | CIROH: Modeling Community Trust: A Collaborative Approach to Scoping Water Forecasting Needs and NOAA Product Use in Indigenous Communities of Northeast Oklahoma | $95,060 |
| Hayes, Melva | Life Span Institute | Kansas City, City of Missouri | Evaluation Service For Aim4Peace Violence Prevention Program | $94,984 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Depth Resolved Algal Bloom Mapping (DRABM) Clinton Lake | $82,919 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $70,394 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Academy of Sciences | Traffic Capactiy Level of Service Adaptations and Usage | $55,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Society For Microbiology | Analysis of trends in the Microbiology workforce | $52,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Engineering Administration / Transportation Center | Kansas State University | Traffic Assistance Services for Kansas (TASK) Program FY24-26 | $40,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Hazardous Materials Training to fire and emergency services personnel in the State of Kansas delivered through Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute 2023-2024 | $31,250 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | Humanities Kansas | Emmett Till and Mamie Till-Mobley: Let the World See | $30,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Clouds or Chemistry?: Pinpointing the drivers of variability across the L/T transition via the benchmark L/T binary WISE 1049AB (JWST2965) | $25,000 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $20,651 |
| Earle, Susan | Spencer Museum of Art | Racial Equity Fund | Highlighting the Work of Black, Indigenous, and Other Women+ of Color | $20,000 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Racial Equity Fund | The Development of a New Perinatal Eating Disorder Screening Tool for Black, Afro-Caribbean, and African American Individuals | $20,000 |
| Weiner Davis, Tadeo | Social Welfare | Racial Equity Fund | Stand Up KC Community Archive | $20,000 |
| Schwaller, Rachel | History | Racial Equity Fund | Unsettled Lawrence: Challenging Collective Memory of Settlement Through the Oral and Public Histories of Unhoused Populations in Lawrence | $16,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Children'S Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Identifying compounds that target vulnerabilities imposed by EWS haploinsufficiency to discover novel treatments for EWSR1 fusion-positive childhood sarcomas | $13,750 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Love Lifesciences Llc | Testing of single-dose needle-based injection systems | $11,300 |
| Romanova, Ekaterina | Communication Studies | National Communication Association | Can Propaganda Reach Beyond Continents? Exploring Media Choice, Conspiracy Beliefs, and Support for Political Violence among the Russian-Speaking Diaspora in the U.S. | $9,600 |
| Holmes, Cheryl | Social Welfare | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Lied Pre-Clinical Pilot | $5,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Economics / Life Span Institute | Psi Chi, The International Honor Society In Psychology | Cognitive Dysfunction Related to Substance Use Among Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2024 Local Technical Assistance Program LTAP | $660,000 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Tennessee Tech University | Second-life Battery in Mobile EV Charging Application for Rural Transportation (SMART) | $500,000 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Textured Expoxy-Coated Hooked and Headed Bars | $490,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | Mid-America Transportation Center for Transportation Safety and Equity (MATC-TSE) | $449,998 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Concrete Reinforcing Steel Institute Education | Corrosion Resistance of Damaged Textured Epoxy-Coated Reinforcement | $290,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Charles Stewart Mott Foundation | Kansas Statewide Afterschool Network (2023-2026) | $225,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2023 Amendment 8 | $198,237 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas A&M Research Foundation | Enhancement of PANDA-AP (Pavement Analysis using Nonlinear Damage Approach for Airports) | $181,986 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Iconium Engineering Company | Iconium Engineering Company Refrigerant Ionic liquid Separation (IEC-RISE) | $87,375 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center | Development and analysis of novel experimental platforms for Alzheimer's disease in Down syndrome | $76,081 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Institute for Bioengineering Research | Axioforce | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $75,093 |
| Hall, Jeffrey | Communication Studies | Harvard University | Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) Visiting Scholars Faculty Fellowship | $75,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | United Cerebral Palsy Of Central Florida Inc | PROJECT RAISE: Robots and Artificial Intelligence to Improve Social Skills for Elementary Students | $52,639 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $51,047 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Missouri - Columbia | 3D force sensing insoles for wearable, AI empowered, high-fidelity gait monitoring (MBArC) | $43,094 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics and Astronomy | Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory | 2024 LPC Distinguished Researcher Award for Recipient Dr. Alice Bean | $40,982 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Faraday Technology Inc. | Extraction and Utilization of Water and Gases from Icy Lunar Regolith | $35,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Foster Resource Center K-CART OASIS training | $34,045 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Institutional Career Development Core | $31,383 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | North Dakota State University | CAREER: Rapid Phenotypic Divergence & Insulin-like Growth Factor 1 Signaling in a Widespread Songbird | $22,063 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Teverra Llc | Heat-Sweep Monitoring with Bubbled Water Seismic Imaging | $20,000 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Quabbin Regional School District | Quabbin Secondary Co-Teaching Initiative | $14,500 |
| Britt, Nicholas | Pharmacy Practice | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Drug abuse and HIV-associated pulmonary vascular injury | $10,386 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Eureka!: An Open-Source Pipeline for JWST Time-Series Observations AR-03273 - Brande | $10,091 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keshmiri, Shawn | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Kansas State University | Applied Research and Innovation Scholarship for Engineering Students in Aerospace, AI, and Cybersecurity (ARISE) | $3,097,582 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey DLM: 2023 - 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,022,705 |
| Spencer, Trina | Life Span Institute | US Department of Education | Development of an Implementation Support Package to Install, Implement, and Sustain MTSS in Early Childhood Settings | $1,999,914 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Workforce Registry | $1,068,555 |
| Matsunaga, Kelly | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Unearthing the conifer tree of death | $946,323 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Alion Science & Technology | Hangar4F | $326,711 |
| Loecke, Terrance | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Wichita State University | Testing the Effects of Cattle Grazing on CRP Grasslands in Short and Tallgrass Prairie Regions | $321,102 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | FY24: Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $210,756 |
| Luo, Bo | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas - Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Stars | $149,870 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | Start Young | $146,271 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | Community Care Corps The Oasis Institute | University of Kansas Transition to Postsecondary Education (KU TPE) Peer Navigators | $124,621 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | FY 2024 Early Head Start | $111,243 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Helen Keller Services For The Blind Inc | National Center for Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) Subaward FY24 | $109,984 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tfi Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2024 | $106,596 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Sustainable Continuous Manufacturing of Pharmaceuticals with CO2 Expanded Liquids | $100,000 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | The Nature Conservancy | Streamflow depletion modeling in Sonoma County and Scott Valley, CA | $82,500 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Texas Tech University | Hispanic Serving Institutions Research Centers of Excellence, Texas Tech University’s “Center of Excellence in Climate Resilience and Equitable Housing” (CECREH) | $71,535 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Stem Next Opportunity Fund | Million Girls Moonshot: Innovator Grant | $55,000 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Performance-enabling soybean-derived materials for next-generation solid state lithium-sulfur batteries: FY 2024 | $50,000 |
| Whelan, Rebecca | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Leveraging long-read sequencing and targeted proteomics to explain racial disparities in CA125 levels | $50,000 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Teachers and Students for Community-Oriented Research and Education: Linking Industry Partners, Faculty, and Teachers (TSCORE LIFT) | $37,286 |
| Francisco, Vincent | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | All of Us Research Program Heartland Consortium (AoURP-HC) | $36,117 |
| Fischer, Kenneth | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of SPECC1L cytoskeletal protein in palate elevation dynamics | $28,426 |
| Peterson, Dana | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Americaview Inc. | StateView Program Development and Operations for the State of Kansas | $25,500 |
| Lyles, Lindsey | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University Corp For Atmospheric | Climate Adaptation Outreach Support | $20,000 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Student Travel Grant for 2023 ACM International Symposium on Mobile Ad Hoc Networking and Computing (MobiHoc) | $18,000 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Florida State University | CAREER: Quantification of the kinetic energy of particles in complex flows using magnetic particle tracking. | $16,434 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | Test Administrator and Educator Training for the Science DLM-AA | $14,673 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Office of The State Superintendent of Education | DC DLM Additional Services 2023 - 2024 | $10,416 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | USD 497, Lawrence | USD 497 Portrait of a Graduate | $8,000 |
| Chen, Yi Chun | Journalism | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | REACH for equity in Southeast Kansas | $6,401 |
| Schulte, Scott | Environmental Studies Program / KU Edwards Campus | Mid America Regional Council | Resilient People, Resilient Places | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Examining the Efficacy of Aligning Core Content-Area Reading Instruction and Small Group Reading Intervention for Students with Reading Disabilities (Project ALIGN) | $3,789,119 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Administration For Children & Families | Kansas Bravely Raising & Activating Voices for Equity | $2,500,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | State of the States in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities | $2,249,797 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Employment First | $1,995,944 |
| Kurth, Jennifer | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU Para to Teacher Project: Pathway to Low Incidence Teacher Endorsement | $1,195,566 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Tennessee Department of Education | Tennessee DLM: 2023 - 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math) + Additional Services | $1,174,272 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project MounTaiN: Meeting The Need to Prepare Early Interventionists and Special Educators in Data-Based Instruction for Young Children with High Intensity Support Needs | $1,100,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency | Enabling Spectrally Aware Cognitive RF Sensing | $1,000,000 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Developing CI-enabled collaborative workflows to integrate data for the SZ4D (Subduction Zones in Four Dimensions) community | $850,370 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Effects of CIRCLES on the Provision of Transition Services and Resulting Transition Outcomes for Students with Disabilities | $816,331 |
| Alexander, Perry | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Predicable and Scalable Remote Attestation | $722,322 |
| Colombo, John | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Psychometrics and Predictive Validity of Infant Learning | $678,966 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | Joint SAR/GMTI using Agile Waveforms | $427,673 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State University | Increasing Water Productivity, Soil Carbon and Sustainability of Integrated Multi-Crop Systems Using Field Scale Research | $400,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Systems Technology Research (Str) | Smaller Targeting Radars with Integrated Performance Equivalency STRIPE | $358,831 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | University of Texas-Austin | Evaluating THRIVE – A Promising Sexual Health Intervention for Youth in Foster Care and Child Welfare Professionals | $350,000 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Building Early Childhood-Child Welfare Partnerships to Support the Well-Being of Young Children, Families, and Caregivers | $259,588 |
| Saraf, Anita | Molecular Structures Group / Mass Spectometry Laba | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Characterization of Environmental Effects on Mosquito Saliva Composition Using Mass Spectrometry | $250,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | SPARK-Accelerator | $247,540 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical High Energy Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $220,011 |
| Symons, John | Philosophy / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | Vulnerabilities in the Social Attack Surface - How Undermining Norms Affects the Resilience of Critical Social Institutions | $201,852 |
| Long, Haiying | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Supporting the Whole Student: Identifying and Mitigating Barriers to Persistence for Underserved Post-Traditional Engineering Students | $200,041 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Advancing Computer Hardware and Systems' Research Capability, Reproducibility, and Sustainability with the gem5 Simulator Ecosystem | $200,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) FY2024 | $154,006 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | FY24 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $151,750 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $128,200 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Lifting the Veil: An Open Source Haze Model for Exoplanet Atmospheric Characterization (JWST3207) | $122,959 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (ORKA) | $114,000 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Connecticut ROM FY24 | $101,404 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Probing Mechanisms of Polycystin-1 Regulation Using Peptide Modulators Designed by Sequence- and Structure-Based Learning | $98,865 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship Program | $92,150 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma AWARE South | $81,765 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | Pacific Northwest National Laboratories | Nexus of Controls and Communications for Battery Energy Storage Systems | $79,999 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S.D 259, Wichita | Comprehensive Needs Assessment of WPS Strategic Plan | $78,000 |
| Azuma, Mizuki | Molecular Biosciences | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Identification of compounds that target vulnerabilities of Ewing sarcoma imposed by EWS haploinsufficiency | $72,000 |
| Chow, Connie | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | Enhancing DEI through rich, street level data: How user stories can reveal gaps and alignment between stated goals and student experience | $60,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $52,484 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Aware East | $50,869 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduate Research Assistant Services on Nelson Projects | $50,200 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project | $48,610 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Washington | Initial Efficacy Trial of a Group-Based Implementation Strategy Designed to Increase Teacher Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs | $38,839 |
| Dieker, Lisa | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Taunton Public Schools | Taunton Co-teaching and Inclusive Practices | $37,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $34,622 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $31,186 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Assessment of sediment sources in the John Redmond reservoir watershed | $15,000 |
| McCannon, Gerald | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Midwest Sociological Society (Mss) | How being both first generation and nontenure track impacts faculty sense of belonging in their departments, their mental wellbeing, and how they might navigate these challenges | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track G: Combating Vulnerability and Unawareness in 5G Network Security | $5,000,000 |
| Stevens, Elizabeth | Special Education / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Math Words: Vocabulary Support for Students Experiencing Difficulty in Mathematics | $1,994,476 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science /Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Frameworks: Automated Quality Assurance and Quality Control in the StraboSpot Geologic Information System for Observational Data | $1,886,298 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa MIECHV Quality Improvement 2024 | $1,443,984 |
| Wang, Zhi | Aerospace Engineering | Department of Defense | GPU and Fast Storage Infrastructure for Massively Parallel Scientific Computing and Reduced Order Modeling | $746,258 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Optimizing a Sensor-Enabled mHealth Intervention for Adolescents with Suboptimal Asthma Control | $727,641 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY23 | $605,817 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion Part C | $599,525 |
| Chan, Wai-Lun | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Minimizing the Energy Loss in Charge Separation via Spontaneous Exciton Heating | $592,044 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology | $472,693 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Office of Research / Institute for Bioengineering Research | National Institutes of Health | Peptide Enabled Tunable Restorative Interface | $467,008 |
| Orive, Maria | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Florida | Invasive species as conduits for pathogen spillover between natural and agricultural ecosystems | $456,839 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: GEO OSE Track 2: Building a multiscale community-led ecosystem for crustal geology through the integration of Macrostrat and StraboSpot | $434,415 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: RUI: Tracing Galaxy Quenching in the Cosmic Web With Spatially-Resolved Star-Formation Maps | $375,211 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Can Human-Induced Turbidity Currents Enable Sustainability of Freshwater Reservoirs? | $350,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institutes of Health | Plugging & Pulling-in: tuning peptide for ToIC to overcome anitbiotic resistance | $311,242 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | Developing culturally appropriate language assessment tools for low-income African American and Hispanic young children | $266,728 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Exxonmobil Global Services Company | High Resolution Seismic Investigations of Rock Characteristics Associated with Subsidence | $254,003 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Ultrahigh Energy Neutrinos with the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland | $181,285 |
| Sereno, Joan | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Yr. 2: NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act for Joan Sereno | $177,697 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | 2023-2025 Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project | $122,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Iowa State University | Evaluation and Selection of 3D Model Viewers for Construction Inspection | $110,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Long-Term HAB Trends at Cedar Bluff and Clinton Reservoirs Kansas Water Office Contract Number #24-111 | $100,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Brigham Young University | Understanding Reservoir Sedimentation Sources and Economics in the Kansas River Basin for US Army Corps of Engineers Kansas City District | $100,000 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Evaluation of Pre-Oxidation of Evonik Wastewater to Improve Biological Nutrient Removal Performance | $91,068 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | DWR Mobile WRIS | $79,794 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program 2023 | $75,729 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Program Coordination at Parsons State Hospital & Training Center: FY 2024 | $66,100 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-4: Implementation of Constructability Reviews for Highway Construction Projects in KDOT: Best Practices and Key Lessons | $65,820 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | KBOR State-Wide Structured Literacy Mini-Grant | $52,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Exploring the effects of a community-based functional fitness program on frailty among adults aging with mobility disability: A pilot study | $50,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 6) | $49,924 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Upper Arkansas River Corridor Water Quality Modeling | $35,000 |
| MacGonagle, Elizabeth | History / Hall Center for the Humanities | World Learning Inc . | Race, History, & Health in African and African Diasporic Communities | $34,999 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Roskilde University | Governing Green Transitions (GOGREEN) | $32,821 |
| Moskovitz, Jackob | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Moskovitz ADRC DPP 23-24: Oxidation of Apolipoprotein J and Alzheimer's disease | $25,000 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY23 | $20,000 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | te Research Assistant Services on KanAWARE | $15,716 |
| Parsons, Sheena | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Douglas County Heritage Conservation Council | "Here-ing" cultural and natural heritage: Regenerating Indigenous cultural fire in Douglas County | $10,600 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences / Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Society For The Study of Evolution | Graduate Research Excellence Grant (GREG) R.C. Lewontin Early Award | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | US Department of Education | Examining the Initial Efficacy of the Goal Setting Challenge App: Impacts of Technology-Delivered Self-Determination Instruction on Secondary/Transition Outcomes | $3,800,000 |
| Cartwright, Paulyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | RaMP: Making meaningful connections: Fostering the Integration of Biodiversity Patterns with Genetic Evolutionary Mechanisms (BioGEM) | $2,986,439 |
| Smith, Sean | Special Education / Achievement & Assessment Institute | US Department of Education | Project iKNOW: Increasing Knowledge and Natural Opportunities With Social Emotional Competence | $2,496,841 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Particle Physics Research with the CMS Experiment | $1,781,502 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | US Department of Energy | Precision hot and cold QCD with CMS and EPIC | $1,500,000 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2023 - 2027 Social Studies + Additional Services | $1,151,989 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | University-Community Partnerships Broadening Technology Education for Women Transitioning from Incarceration | $1,086,078 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | US Geological Survey | Preserving and Inventorying Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples, and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Drill Hole/Core Holdings Relating to Critical Mineral Resources, FY 2023 | $782,969 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico DLM: 2024 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $690,440 |
| Subramanian, Jaichandar | Pharmacology & Toxicology | Columbia University | GLO1/AB-mediated mitochondrial and synaptic injury in Alzheimer's disease | $648,592 |
| Lovell, Scott | Molecular Biosciences | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $619,733 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | IMR: MT: AirScope: A Versatile and Programmable UAV Platform for End-to-End Cellular Network Measurements in Rural Environments | $600,000 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Design and Synthesis of Atomically Tunable Memristors | $349,999 |
| Wu, Huixuan | Aerospace Engineering | National Science Foundation | Evaluating the complexity of unsteady turbulent flows using excess entropy | $319,971 |
| Hernandez, Daniel | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | A study of hypersurface singularities | $220,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: FieldSafe - Changing the Culture of Fieldwork in the Geosciences | $214,819 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: EAGER: AI-Assisted Just-in-Time Scaffolding Framework for Exploring Modern Computer Design | $200,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Midea Company | Heat Pump Testing with New Low-Global Warming Refrigerants | $181,948 |
| Dozier, Claudia | Applied Behavioral Science | Goodlife Innovations Inc. | Technical Assistance for CLO (2023-2024) | $151,473 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry | Parkinson's Disease Foundation | Treatment of Parkinson's disease using alpha-synuclein RNA degraders | $150,000 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Georgia State University | SCC-IRG Track 1: Smart and Safe Prescribed Burning for Rangeland and Wildland Urban Interface Communities | $142,232 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Headwaters Economics | Data and design needs for improving the wildfire and flood resistance of manufactured housing | $127,076 |
| Houts, Michael | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Information Network of Kansas | Developing the nested hexagon framework as a multiscale annotate geospatial index for Kansas datasets | $118,362 |
| Milakhina, Daria | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | ROI Study for Kansas Works Office of Registered Apprenticeship | $101,900 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry | Pinnacle Technology Inc | Functionalized Multi-Modal Tetrode Arrays for Real-Time, Site-Specific Neurochemical Monitoring | $98,641 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Planning: FIRE-PLAN:High-Spatiotemporal-Resolution Sensing and Digital Twin to Advance Wildland Fire Science | $96,000 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Graduate Research Assistant Services on Davis/Bakula Projects | $81,325 |
| Besson, David | Physics and Astronomy | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: WoU-MMA: Askaryan Radio Array: A world-class, forward-looking, and dynamic neutrino astrophysics observatory from 100 PeV | $78,043 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | US Department of Agriculture | Cooperative Agreement to Support Aquaculture Risk Assessment | $75,000 |
| Feldman, Kelli | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Board of Regents | Teacher Education Competitive Grant: Expanding the World of Teaching through Enhanced Teacher Education Pathways | $72,106 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | United-We | Report on Child Care Licensing in Kansas | $57,556 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | National Endowment For The Arts | KU Powwow & Indigenous Cultures Festival (ICF) | $55,000 |
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Road Safety Assessments RSA for locals | $50,191 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center | Exploring the effects of a community-based functional fitness program on frailty among adults aging with mobility disability: A pilot study | $50,000 |
| Miller, Jonathan | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | 3D force sensing shoe insoles for wearable, remote, high-fidelity gait monitoring | $50,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-KNI | $35,000 |
| Gard, Sarah | Dole Institute of Politics | West Virginia University | The American Congress Digital Archives Portal Project | $29,855 |
| Martin, Jeremy | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Conference: 2023-2025 Kansas Mathematics Graduate Student Conference | $24,772 |
| Kelly, Kara | Biodiversity Institute | New South Associates | NWK Curation FY23-24 | $18,451 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Aleut Community of Saint Paul Island | Biodiversity Assessment of Ephemeral Freshwater Pools on St. Paul Island | $14,117 |
| Mazzotti, Valerie | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina Charlotte | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities | $10,475 |
| Curran, John | Audit, Risk & Compliance / Provost Office | University Risk Management And Insurance Association Inc. | Be the Change: Funded Internship 2023 | $7,500 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | American Herbal Products Association | Oshá, Ligusticum porteri, Mapping and Co-Occurring Plants in Colorado National Forests | $6,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP Mentorship Award | $1,913 |
| Bever, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Donald Danforth Plant Science Center | BII New Roots for Restoration: Arbuscular mycorrhizal mediation of drought stress in intermediate wheatgrass domestication | $851 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound (KU-UB) | $2,400,725 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Delaware Department of Education | Delaware DLM: 2023-2026 Operational/Testing (ELA, MATH, Sci) + Additional Services | $1,781,087 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Veterans Upward Bound (KU-VUB): 2023 - 2028 | $1,547,547 |
| Li, Fengjun | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Griffiss Institute | Fortifying the Cyber and Electromagnetic Frontlines: Establishing a Virtual VICEROY Institute in Midwest | $1,499,983 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | DLM Operational Testing Agreement: Missouri FY 2024 | $1,212,569 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Heising-Simons Foundation | Impact of ice shelf estuaries on ice shelf stability | $599,412 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Technical Services for the Kanas Rural Transit Assistance Program "RTAP" | $256,245 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Society For Conservation Biology | Reconstructing Lahontan cutthroat trout population history to inform future management strategies in Summit Lake, NV | $226,848 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | 23-2023EPSCoR-0022, Physics-Informed-AI Enabled Smart Electrospinning of Nanofiber Memberanes Towards In-Space Manufactuing | $185,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wright State University | National Pathway to Success (NPS) | $126,841 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN 24-5: Evalaution of Portland Limestone Cement-Treated Subgrade Soils and Bases in Kansas | $125,373 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | American Institutes For Research | Evaluation of Transition Supports for Youth with Disabilities | $113,486 |
| Farber, Rachael | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Selective Ethanol Dehydrogenation over Oxide-Supported Metal Nano-Islands | $110,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,293 |
| Royon, Christophe | Physics and Astronomy | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Ultrafast FLASH radiation therapy dosimetry | $100,142 |
| Koliba, Christopher | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Vermont | Enhanced Forecast Design Through Experimental Gaming and Social Impact Assessment of Connected River and Floodplains | $95,807 |
| Darabi Konartakhteh, Masoud | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a database on surface free energy of asphalt binders to evaluate moisture susceptibility of asphalt mixtures used in the state of Kansas | $92,761 |
| Wilson, Blake | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Maintain and expand Kansas-based data services to the NGWMN, 2023 - 2024 | $90,374 |
| Johnson, Jennifer | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | AFG Assistance to Firefighters | $87,877 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Geomechanical and mineralogical properties of limestone samples from Kansas - Joint project with KSU | $81,189 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 24-I: Aggregate Specification to Reduce Dust and Improve Sustainability of Local Rock-surfaced Roads | $79,989 |
| Weinsztok, Sarah | Life Span Institute | University Of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | A prospective behavioral economic analysis of alternative sources of reinforcement for hazardous alcohol use | $76,680 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Development of a Geotechnical Asset Management System for Slopes | $59,832 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Kansas Real-Time Flood Mapping Tool Development: SPARK Efficiency and Modernization | $50,000 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool OST in the Greater Kansas City Metro Area (Modules) | $48,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Functional training for overweight/obese adults with mobility-related disabilities | $46,255 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Post Doctoral Award: Jessamyn Perlmutter | $38,250 |
| Kong, Kyoungchul | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Theoretical Particle Physics in the Data-Driven Era | $33,000 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Prairie Band | Prairie Band Potawatomie Nation Native Connections Evaluation (Y3) | $31,085 |
| Zhang, Jie | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Representation and Processing of Vowel Contrasts in Brazilian Portuguese and English | $18,354 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Follow-up and Validation of TESS Planets with Keck AO Imaging IX - Polanski | $16,500 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Personalized Mobile Health Platform to Promote Physical Activity in Adolescents and Young Adults with Cystic Fibrosis | $15,329 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2023 | $14,705 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | Revealing Gas Flows in High-Redshift Cluster Galaxies - PID 96/2023B_N201 | $13,750 |
| Orr, Ronald | Spencer Museum of Art | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Here-ing | $9,500 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Massachusetts Medical School | JCOIN Coordination and Translation Center | $9,200 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | American College of Medical Genetics Genomics | Midwest Autism Patient-Centered Research Consortium (MARC) | $8,723 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | Century-scale Changes in Terrestrial Vertebrate Faunas of Eastern Kansas | $8,500 |
| Goebel, Frank | Anthropology | Rust Family Foundation | Early Human Settlement of Southern Patagonia: A Proposal for Rescue Excavations at the Paleoindian Locality of La Gruta 1, Santa Cruz Province, Argentina | $7,971 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Forest Service | Mapping populations of Osha (Ligusticum porteri) in the Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado | $5,000 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Geosynthetic Institute | Effects of Moisture and Fine Contents on Wicking Geotextile-Soil Interface Strengths | $5,000 |
| Gallagher, Philip | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | American College of Sports Medicine Foundation | 2023-2024 Student Research Grant Award | $1,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Office of Naval Research | Waveform-Diverse RF Capabilities | $2,186,643 |
| Wendel-Hummell, Carrie | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Workforce Training | $2,009,797 |
| Farrell, Mark | Medicinal Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Glycoscience Tools and Therapeutics | $1,912,500 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | FY 2024 Oklahoma DLM Operational Testing | $1,562,142 |
| Gaumer Erickson, Amy | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Education | SPDG Evaluation | $750,000 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: PurSUiT: Systematic viral discovery through structured search of host phylogeny | $737,127 |
| Byers, Kaela | Social Welfare | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Family Resource Center Evaluation | $499,370 |
| Dunn, Robert | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Planar Capillary Electrophoresis | $472,804 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | U.S. Department of Energy | Recycling of End-of-Life Solar Panels using Near-critical Fluids and Ozone | $433,333 |
| Ewing, Mark | Aerospace Engineering / Office of Research | Federal Aviation Administration | A68 - Validate Small Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Detect and Avoid (DAA) Well-Clear Requirements | $400,000 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | Univ of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Effects of Implicit Bias on Children's Early Outcomes | $335,761 |
| Shontz, Suzanne | Engineering Administration / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: CDS&E: An Experimentally Validated, Interactive, Data-enabled Scientific Computing Platform for Cardiac Tissue Ablation Characterization and Monitoring | $283,686 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | National Science Foundation | COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Social-Emotional Analysis of the Language Environment (SEAL): Key Word & Phrase Spotting in Early Childhood Care Settings | $174,362 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | OK Department of Human Services Children & Family | Accessibility of Wearables | $156,213 |
| O'Reilly, Matthew | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effects of Carbon Sequestration on Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete in Kansas | $151,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Building better bioinoculants: Using experimental evolution to improve the efficacy of a plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria | $120,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE DRPP:Genetics and developmental functions of natural telomere length variation | $114,750 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Standardizing Rigid Inclusions for Transportation Projects | $113,317 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas State University | Collaborative Research: How roots, regolith, rock and climate interact over decades to centuries - the R3-C Frontier | $111,093 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $110,056 |
| Paden, John | Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | British Antarctic Survey | Integration of a CRESIS Radar Depth Sounder on a Windracers UAV | $107,882 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Missouri - Columbia | Raise Awareness of Afterschool | $100,000 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU: 24-3: Creating Effective Graphic Changable DMS Messaging | $85,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water quality monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas with a water quality buoy | $78,196 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Automated Pavement Restriping Systems - Phase II | $70,000 |
| Herda, Trent | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | A comprehensive and non-invasive assessment of skeletal muscle in adolescents with single ventricle circulation | $61,269 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences | Inez Jay Fund | Improving Breast Cancer Immunotherapy by Targeting RNA-Binding Protein HuR | $60,000 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Liquid Biopsy using Tumor Specific Extracellular Vesicles for the Early Detection of Epithelial Ovarian Cancer | $52,676 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating approved therapeutics for their ability to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 ADPribosylhydrolase: 2022-2023 | $50,000 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wend Ii, Inc. | WEND Montessori Research Retreat 2023 | $50,000 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Groundwater Quality Patterns, Trends, and Drivers in GMD2 | $45,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY2024 | $40,000 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Center for Service Learning | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $37,680 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital-FY24 | $35,000 |
| Beard, Kenneth | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Leakey Foundation | Early primate evolution in Big Bend National Park, Texas | $30,000 |
| Logan, Randall | School of Professional Studies / KU Edwards Campus | Director of National Intelligence | Collaborative Cybersecurity Research Initiative: Fostering Innovation and Empowering Students in the IC CAE Kansas Consortium | $30,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Horizons Mental Health Center | Mental Health Awareness Training Project Evaluation | $24,442 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | Wichita State University | High-Fidelity System Identification and Simulation of UAS/UAM Vehicles | $19,272 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Presto Geosystems | Experimental Evaluation of Geocell-stabilized Granular Bases | $15,000 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Instituter | $13,167 |
| Neuenswander, Bradley | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | SEKESC School District Strategic Planning (Effort Only) | $12,500 |
| Francis, Lindsay | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Purchase of Pavement marking Retroflectometer | $10,000 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | The Botanical Society Of America | 2023 Kaplan Dissertation Award in Comparative Morphology: Evolution of bee-exclusionary corolla width differences in Penstemon | $10,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Google, Inc. | Digital Skills for Women with Criminal Justice Involvement | $10,000 |
| Zeigler, Zachary | University Press of Kansas | City of Lawrence | University Press of Kansas NEA ARP Subgrant | $10,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day, Stuart | Edwards Campus | Johnson County, Kansas | Johnson County Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds Subrecipient Grant Agreement – Workforce Development | $1,166,670 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | Health Resources & Service Administration | Building Capacity of Early Childhood Providers to Promote Language Learning of Infants and Young Children from Underserved Communities | $900,000 |
| Salandrino, Alessandro | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Coherent Space-Time-Varying Electromagnetic Structures | $450,335 |
| Huang, Cheng | Aerospace Engineering | Air Force Office of Scientific Research | Generalizable Data-Driven Modeling Framework for Understanding and Modeling Turbulent Combustion | $450,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: IDEA Incubator for Porous Materials: Integrating Discovery, Engineering and Art | $399,892 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | WellBeing Mapping CBCAP Program | $378,685 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,421 |
| Gould, Elizabeth | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2023 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $288,877 |
| Buzhardt Jr, Joseph | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina At Chapel Hill | Validation of an Outcome Measure of Early Social-Communication for Young Children with ASD | $280,566 |
| Chen, Geng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Stability, uniqueness and existence for solutions of hyperbolic conservation laws and nonlinear wave equations | $234,974 |
| Billings, Sharon | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Plant community composition, diversity, and precipitation effects on carbon retention and loss in grassland soils | $225,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Hudson Technologies | Improving Flammability Testing of Refrigerant Mixtures | $209,776 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility | $153,794 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Trihydro Corporation | Technical Support to prepare remote sensing plan in support of the Russell, Kansas site | $150,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Dual-function Radar/Comms Methods and Robust Calibration Approaches | $150,000 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Pfizer Inc | Evaluating the influence of pharmaceutical feed impurities and solvents on Pd catalyzed flow hydrogenation | $140,000 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | University of Georgia | The Role of Fathering in the Language Development of Young, Low-Income African American and Latino Children | $130,464 |
| Brumberg, Jonathan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Wispr Ai | Silent Speech Data Collection: Testing and Analysis | $92,611 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Illinois Action For Children | Illinois Community Systems Statewide Supports (CS3) IRIS | $65,000 |
| Wang, Zhuo | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Georgia | The activation of benzoxaborole prodrug AN15368, a clinical candidate for Chagas disease | $61,386 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars yr 10 | $54,540 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Digital Equity Asset Mapping | $53,230 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office (URO) | $53,025 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Board of Regents | Jobs and Degree Requirements for 2030:An Expanded Analysis of Projections from Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce | $40,690 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | P30 CATCH UP Above Accrual Goal Administrative Supplement Request | $38,250 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kicc-Ks Interdisc Carbonates Consortium | Experimental investigation of High-Pressure, High-Temperature Methane/Co2 Adsorption for Organic-Rich, Tight/Ultra-Tight Carbonates | $36,086 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Type 1 Diabetes Rapid Learning Lab | $34,088 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies | Michigan State University | Science, Art and Faith: Architectural Heritage and Islam | $30,000 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Research Go | Decolonization through Digitization: Enabling Free and Equitable Access to KU's Historically Unique and Globally Significant Reptile and Amphibian Collection with the Emerging Field of Museum Genomics | $29,548 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | 2023 KDOT Innovative Technologies Summit | $25,196 |
| Davido, David | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Role of ICP0 Dimerization in Herpes Simplex Virus Pathogenesis | $25,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | KINBRE Star Trainees yr 10 | $21,210 |
| Murray, Angela | Achievement & Assessment Institute | American Montessori Society | AMS Research Consulting Year 4 | $20,017 |
| Yun, Heechul | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Wichita State University | Anytime Perception and Control for Intelligent and Safe Advanced Air Mobility | $19,272 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Impact of Weight Loss on Alzheimers Disease Risk in Adults with Down Syndrome | $17,294 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2023-2024 | $15,150 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Department of Defense | Assessment of Eating Disorder and Comorbidity Risk and Resilience in a Nationally Representative Sample of Recent Military Enlistees | $4,230,958 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Program | $664,840 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Medicaid Equipment Exchange | $628,420 |
| Tunge, Jon | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | CAS: Enabling synthesis through small molecule liberation | $575,000 |
| Iqbal, Asif | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Agriculture | Kansas Online Water Use Report - CY2023-2025 | $224,200 |
| Allgeier, Alan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Danisco Usa Inc. | Development of Process for Derivatization of Engineered Polysaccharides through Enzymatic Polymerization Through Carboxylic Acids to the Corresponding Engineered Polysaccharide Esters | $206,724 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of Nevada, Las Vegas | The Genetic Basis of Local Adaptation Across an Island Adaptive Radiation | $96,884 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine: Biomedical Engineering Core | $63,863 |
| Rojas Villarreal, Raul | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Momentous Institute | Collaborative Research Study on Bilingual Language and Self-Regulation Development | $63,615 |
| Girard, Jeffrey | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Massachusetts General Hospital | Multimodal Dynamics of Parent-Child Interactions and Suicide Risk | $59,446 |
| Diener, Alexander | Geography and Atmospheric Science | University of Connecticut | The Middle of Somewhere: Place Attachment and the Geographies of Being | $50,000 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Food is Medicine | $43,294 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Evonik | Biological Nutrient Removal testing | $42,467 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Early Head Start Data Reporting System (DAISEY) FY24 | $37,425 |
| Jiang, Yunfeng | Mathematics | Research Go | Gromov-Witten Counting Surface Invariants | $30,000 |
| Mahajan, Kirti | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Assessment of In-Vehicle Human Machine Interfaces (HMI's) Based on Cognitive-Visual Load | $30,000 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Development of the Blended Early Literacy, Language, and Social-Emotional Intervention (BELLS) for Preschool Teachers | $30,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Development of an Oral Stimulator of Interferon Genes Agonist for Cancer Treatment | $30,000 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | Research Go | Cyclopolymer Materials Enabled by Spring-Loaded Polymerization | $29,993 |
| Snow, Nancy | Philosophy / Hall Center for the Humanities | Research Go | The Meaning and Importance of "Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" in Today's World | $29,978 |
| Myers, Suzanne | Life Span Institute | Research Go | Writing with Purpose: Improving Adolescent Writing Achievement through a Focus on Authentic Purpose | $29,299 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Research Go | Investigating the Role of Microplastics as Carriers of Antibiotic Resistance into the Environment | $29,228 |
| Sabarwal, Tarun | Economics | Research Go | Control and Spread of Information in Decentralized Networks | $27,457 |
| Ovchinnikov, Dmitry | Physics and Astronomy | Research Go | Electric Field Control of Magnetism in Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials | $27,447 |
| Johnson, Christopher | Music | National Endowment For The Arts | Impact of the Quality of Music Programs on the Overall School Climate in High Schools | $27,136 |
| Hileman, Lena | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | Research Go | Connecting Genome to Phenome in the Evolution of Trait Complexity | $26,433 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Omics profiling and biological function of plasma-derived extracellular vesicles in colorectal cancer | $25,000 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Research Go | Dissecting the Genetic Basis of Longevity in Drosophila | $17,306 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Museum of Natural History | Collaborative Research: All Birds: A Time-scaled Avian Tree From Integrated Phylogenomic and Fossil Data | $9,998 |
| Fischer, Kenneth | Mechanical Engineering | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Single Stage Surgical Intervention for Treatment of Severe Traumatic Brain Injury | $4,187 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smith, Adam | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | Neurocircuit of Partner-seeking Following Social Loss | $3,213,479 |
| Heggeness, Misty | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | The Care Board: A Dashboard on, for, and about Care Work and Caregivers in the U.S. | $761,886 |
| Cordell, Stacy | Academic / Professional Programs | Kansas Department of Transportation | KDOT Transportation Safety Conference 2023 - 2027 | $755,266 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Near-Memory Datacenter Network | $533,095 |
| Douglas, Justin | Molecular Structures Group | National Science Foundation | Helium Recovery Equipment: Acquisition of Helium Recovery and Liquefaction Hardware for the University of Kansas | $500,000 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Neurodegenerative Mechanisms of Motor, Executive, and Memory Decline in Females with Fragile X-associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS) | $465,831 |
| Liu, Zhipeng | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Exact Formulas of the KPZ Fixed Point and the Directed Landscape | $296,885 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas State University | RESPETAME: Reimagining Educational Systems by Practicing Equity and Translanguaging and Accessing Multiliterate Experiences | $217,263 |
| Soberon, Jorge | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | OPUS: A Computational Theory of Biodiversity | $139,114 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Johns Hopkins University | An Examination of the Joint Contributions of Socioeconomic Disadvantage, Genetics, and COVID-19 on the Development of Delay Discounting and Substance Use Across Adolescence | $75,332 |
| Rogers, David | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Lyme Disease Tick Surveillance | $75,063 |
| Roediger, David | American Studies | Huntington Library, Art Collection & Botanical Gardens | Avery Distinguished Fellowship for Academic Year 2023-2024 | $75,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The SPACE Program: a Sub-neptune Planetary Atmosphere Characterization Experiment (17192) | $43,626 |
| Gane, Brian | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois-Chicago | Collaborative Research: Improving Multi-dimensional Assessment and Instruction: Building and Sustaining Elementary Science Teachers' Capacity Through Learning Communities | $40,123 |
| Miller, Richard | Kansas Geological Survey | Burns & Mcdonnell | Ground Truth Testing and Correlation of Seismic Interpretation and Borehole Sampling at Mosaic's Legacy Well Field in Hutchinson, Kansas | $37,006 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | University of Kansas Alzheimer's Disease Research Center (KU ADRC) | $28,620 |
| Chen, YiYang | Music | Racial Equity Fund | World Music: A Portrait Series of Modern Composers | $20,000 |
| Duncan, Philip | Linguistics | Racial Equity Fund | Language ideology and the dilution of Black student voices through "proper grammar." | $20,000 |
| Nguyen, Cambrey | Pharmacy Practice | Racial Equity Fund | Promoting health equity through cultural competency: Exploring the patient perspective of community pharmacists delivering care to racially diverse individuals with disabilities: KUEA#37083 | $20,000 |
| Pursel, Sydney | Spencer Museum of Art | Racial Equity Fund | Indigenous Fashion Show & Exhibition: Spencer Museum of Art. | $20,000 |
| Pourladian, Bamdad | Mechanical Engineering | Honeywell | Predictive Model for Silicone Pad Failure and Predicting Uniaxial Compression of Foam Using Computer Vision | $18,399 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | Georgia Institute of Technology | Discovering novel predictors of minimally verbal outcomes in autism through computational modeling | $1,049,667 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five Planning Grant 2 | $1,030,522 |
| Garstka, Teri | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Kansas Early Childhood Integrated Data System Distinct Count of Children Project | $800,000 |
| Nash, Brooke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Missouri Department - Elementary/Secondary Ed | Pathways for Instructionally Embedded Assessment (PIE) project | $618,232 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Porous absorbent-coated geotextile to enhance water drainage from soil | $549,996 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Minnesota Department of Education | Minnesota Interagency Community Voice & SenseMaking Project | $361,763 |
| Pu, Bing | Geography and Atmospheric Science | National Science Foundation | Understanding the formation and impacts of warm-season trans-Atlantic African dust extremes | $360,739 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Sun Specialty Products Corporation | Extraction of Rare Earth Elements Using Polyelectrolytes and Polyelectrolyte Complexes | $300,000 |
| Beach, James | Biodiversity Institute | Natural History Museum | Integrating Geoscience Collections into Specify Software | $223,711 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: NSF Directorate for Geosciences-Natural Environment Research Council: Understanding surface-to-bed meltwater pathways across the Greenland Ice Sheet using machine-learning and physics-based models | $191,868 |
| Hron, Janine | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Greenbush Southeast Kansas Education Service | Kansas Department of Education Summer Enrichment Program Sunflower Summer 2023 | $176,620 |
| Li, Xianglin | Office of Research / Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | Multifunctional Ceramics for Space and Aircraft Applications | $149,999 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Ranges: Building Capacity to Extend Mammal Specimens from Western North America | $146,497 |
| Schnitz, Alana | Life Span Institute | The Family Conservancy | FY23 Start Young Agreement | $144,839 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $119,564 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education South | $113,522 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $104,295 |
| Sturm, Belinda | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Water Research Foundation | Engineering the Reactive Surface of Aerobic Granular Systems for Contaminant and Pathogen Removal | $100,000 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Kansas Universal Home Visiting Expansion Project Evaluation (TO 23039) | $75,000 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Flood Mapping Tool Development: Real-time Flood Mapping for Kansas | $60,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | OK Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education East | $55,714 |
| Walker, James | Geology | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Technical Support: Kansas | $55,000 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Urban Action Partner Technology Pilot | $49,655 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core (Hageman) | $41,776 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Guided Episodic Future Thinking to Increase Physical Activity Adherence and Promote Healthy Brain Aging Among Mid-Life Adults | $40,568 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Grant Project | $39,100 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | National Radio Astronomy Observatory Student Observing Support (SOS) Proposal to support Benjamin Moreau | $31,354 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $29,664 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - San Francisco | NSF Convergence Accelerator Track J: Network Of User-engaged Researchers building Interdisciplinary Scientific infrastructures for Healthy food (NOURISH) | $24,344 |
| Roy, Anuradha | Biomedical Services Labs / High Throughput Screening | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | NCI Cancer Center Support Grant - Lead Development and Optimization Core Core (Roy) | $24,018 |
| Christine, Mary | Office of Faculty Affairs / Institute of Leadership Studies | Kansas State University | Kansas Leadership Center Research Initiative | $20,765 |
| Shen, Zuchao | Life Span Institute | University of Florida | Optimal Design of Experimental Studies Investigating Mediation Effects With Individual-Level Mediators | $18,305 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Evaluating sleep disturbances in adolescents and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities | $15,787 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Tensar International Inc. | Experimental Investigation of Interaction between InterAx Geogrid Products and Granular Fill | $15,000 |
| Choi, Jae Young | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Recombination Rate Variation and Evolutionary Mechanisms of Adaptive Radiation | $13,909 |
| Brown, Rafe | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | KU Center For Genomics | KUgenoTypes: democratizing access to the University of Kansas' globally and historically significant herpetological collection with museum genomics | $13,063 |
| Koch, Lisa | Transportation Research Center | South Carolina Department of Transportation | South Carolina Department of Transportation Dispatching and Scheduling Training 2023 | $11,193 |
| Lattin, Dana | Life Span Institute | University of North Carolina Charlotte | National Technical Assistance Center on Transition for Students and Youth with Disabilities | $10,000 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | City of Lawrence | KU Indigenous Cultures Festival Artists | $10,000 |
| Talbott, Jennifer | Spencer Museum of Art | City of Lawrence | Gallery Reopening Community Promotion | $10,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Small molecule enhances anti-cancer tumor radiosensitivity via activation of the cGAS-STING pathway | $10,000 |
| Orozco, Robin | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Center For Genomics | Pro-autoimmune allele of PTPN22 influences immune cell functions during virus infection | $9,900 |
| Wallisch, Anna | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Investigating the Challenging Eating Behaviors of Children with Autism at Mealtime | $7,000 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Directsync Surgical, Llc | Spinal Fusion Implant with Integrated Fusion Progression Diagnostic Capability | $6,000 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Vista Clara, Inc. | Dynamic Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Logging Technologies for High-Resolution Measurement of Hydrogeologic Properties and Soil Response | $5,100 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | A Resource for the Genetic Dissection of Complex Traits | $2,962,239 |
| Mohammadi Dehcheshmehi, Sahar | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Critical Minerals in Pennsylvanian black shales of the U.S. Midcontinent | $975,000 |
| Vakser, Ilya | Computational Biology | National Science Foundation | U.K. Research and Innovation/Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council - NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences: Modeling of protein interactions to predict phenotypic effects of genetic mutations | $930,155 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | Booz, Allen, Hamilton, Inc. | Design of an Ammonia + Ionic Liquid Development Test Rig | $638,638 |
| Hutchison, Justin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Thermal proteome profiling applications for in-situ bioreporting of contaminant degradation in soils | $441,172 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Electric Power Research Institute, Inc | Advanced Nuclear Reactors: Bond under High Temperature | $395,000 |
| Carta, Judith | Life Span Institute | University of Iowa | Evaluate effectiveness of Waterloo Central School District & Council Bluffs Central School District Exploratory Projects & Statewide Implementation of Specially Designed Instruction, Including Evaluation of the State Identified Measure of R | $374,052 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Novartis Pharma Ag | SubQ Application of Biologics - in vivo degradation in the SubQ space as impact factor for reduced bioavailability | $310,000 |
| Timmons, Lisa | Molecular Biosciences | National Science Foundation | EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER): Overcoming transformation and germline expression barriers | $300,000 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | National Center On Deaf Blindness | National Center on Deaf-Blindness (NCDB) | $298,268 |
| Prohira, Steven | Physics and Astronomy / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Windows on the Universe - Multi-Messenger Astrophysics: The Radar Echo Telescope for Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos: Toward a Transformative Technology for Neutrino | $297,439 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | National Science Foundation | Research Infrastructure Improvement Track-4:NSF:Assessing Dynamic Connectivity of Streams and Wetlands across Spatial and Human Gradients with Deep Learning | $259,515 |
| Walker, James | Geology | Texas A & M University College Station | Broadening Community Use and Adoption of StraboSpot | $233,536 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | University of Oklahoma | Predictive Intelligence for Pandemic Prevention Phase 1: International Center for Avian Influenza Pandemic Prediction and Prevention | $219,264 |
| Liming, Kiley | Social Welfare | Oklahoma Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Infant Toddler Court Program (OKITCP) | $156,250 |
| Davidson, Andrew | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Security Agency | GenCyber Summer Camp at the University of Kansas -- Inspiring the Next Generation of Cyber Defenders | $145,794 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | Henry Ford Health System | Improving Decision Making to Prevent Substance Misuse among Adolescents from Traditionally Underserved Communities | $118,981 |
| Teator, Aaron | Chemistry | American Chemical Society | Post-Polymerization Diversification of Polyacrylamides Using Amide Activation | $110,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | The City University of New York | Disability and Health Data Collaborative: Using Data to Promote the Health and Wellness of People with Disabilities | $99,999 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $81,652 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Development of a Simple Animal Model for Familial Alzheimer's Disease | $65,000 |
| Parsons, Robert | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Maxtech Inc. | Lightweight Cellular Concrete Testing for Use as an Approved Substitute for Flowable Fill A Research Proposal | $58,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Mollet, Amanda | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Spencer Foundation | Queer Intimacies: A qualitative examination of LGBTQ+ college students' expericence in healther intimate relationships | $49,866 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | National Endowment For The Arts | To support research and preliminary work for the 2025 exhibition STREET NIHONGA: The Art of jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani and accompanying publication | $40,000 |
| Miao, Yinglong | Molecular Biosciences | KU Endowment Association | Mechanism of polycystin-1 signal transduction in complex with polycystin-2 | $40,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | tiny-k Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $40,000 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Kansas Hospital Association | Estimating the Economic Impact of the Health Care Sector in Kansas and Kansas Counties | $39,793 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Sustained Irrigation of Soybean-Farm Utilizing Soybean Nanoclays as Natural Soil Additives | $32,856 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Drug Discovery, Delivery and Experimental Therapeutics Component (D3ET) | $31,539 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Cancer Center Support Grant - Cancer Biology Program | $28,949 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | Kansas Division of Emergency Managment | Hazardous Materials Training to fire and emergency services personnel in the State of Kansas delivered through Kansas Fire & Rescue Training Institute 2022-2023 | $25,000 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | 2023A Keck/NIRC2: TESS Planet Validation with AO Imaging VIII | $17,700 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Jet Propulsion Lab - California Technology | NASA/Keck: Go Long: Wide Companions in Short-Period Exoplanet Systems | $17,700 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Conference: Student Travel Grant Request for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software | $15,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Van Go Inc | Van Go, Inc. Data Audit and Impact Report | $12,488 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wills, Howard | Educational Psychology / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department Of Education | Class-Wide Functon-Related Intervention Teams Rural Expansion: Gaining More Time to Learn and More Time to Teach in Rural Schools | $14,999,997 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department Of Education | Supporting Effective School Leaders through Professional Learning and Resources for Equity Leadership & Educator Well-Being | $10,112,318 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | The Leona M And Harry B Helmsley Charitable Trust | Development of SAgA-T1D as Type 1 Diabetes Antigen Specific Immunotherapy | $3,025,839 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Evolvable Computing for Next Generation Distributed Computer Systems | $1,269,661 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | Arizona State University | Preparing Productive Special Education Scholars to Lead in Evidence-based Practices in Comprehensive, Integrated, Three-tiered (Ci3T) Models of Prevention (Project EPIC) | $1,231,269 |
| Mitchiner, Melinda | Life Span Institute | Oregon Department Of Education | Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) | $1,183,518 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department Of Transportation | 2023 Local Technical Assistance Program (LTAP) | $660,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Inservice Training System (KITS)-Infant and Toddler Expansion | $576,758 |
| Greenhoot, Andrea | Center for Teaching Excellence | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | A Comprehensive Shift Toward Achievement-oriented Thinking and Practices | $529,500 |
| Jorgenson, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | Haskell Foundation | Large-scale CoPe: Rising Voices, Changing Coasts: The National Indigenous and Earth Sciences Convergence Hub | $483,775 |
| Leonard, Kevin | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | U.S. Army | Experimental and Simulation Investigations into Novel Mechanisms for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction | $449,374 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas Maternal, Infant and Early Childhood Home Visiting Coordinated State Evaluation (TO 23031) | $438,853 |
| Fehr, Anthony | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Identifying the targets of virus-induced PARPs during SARS-CoV-2 infection | $424,184 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Office of The Governor of Kansas | Kansas Fiscal Transparency Project (KFTP): Tracking the Impact of Government Funding in Kansas. | $367,658 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Our Tomorrows (KDHE Health Equity) (TO 22066) | $315,000 |
| Jorgenson, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | TEAMSPORT to Community TEAMSPORT: Validating and Adapting a Precision Oncology Reflex Testing Team Intervention to Reduce Rural Disparities in Cancer Care Delivery | $272,664 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Kansas Health And Research Participation (K-HARP) Network: Building Capacity for Self-Determination | $250,000 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wisconsin Department of Children & Families | Wisconsin Family Foundations Home Visiting Shared Measurements System | $208,305 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center: 2023 | $200,927 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | FY23 1st Five Healthy Mental Development Initiative: Evaluation | $182,183 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Crawford County | Certified Behavioral Health Clinic (CCBHC) Planning, Development, and Implementation Grant Project Evaluation --Crawford County | $166,508 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Kinimmune | Development of a Tumor-retentive Immunostimulant as Adjunct Therapy for Solid Tumor Cancers | $160,182 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | Idaho Advancing Wellness and Resiliency in Education (ID-AWARE) | $152,632 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | TFI Family Services | TFI Family Services ROM 2022-2023 | $130,647 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | University Of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign | Sustaining Ecosystem Services in Agricultural Landscapes Through a Better Understanding of Decision-support Systems | $116,970 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Sandia National Laboratories | Adaptive Waveform Development For Optimized ReTurns- Enhanced Scene Interpretation and Interference Mitigation(A WD Fort-e S1m) | $100,000 |
| Clifford, Ryan | Design | Iowa State University | North Central Integrated Pest Management Center NCIPMC: A Regional Approach to Pest Management Implementation FY23-FY27 | $100,000 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | Honeywell | 2D Semiconductor Reliability- KU | $95,000 |
| Blakemore, James | Chemistry / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Chevron Phillips Chemical Company | Redox Behavior of Catalysts for Olefin Oligomerization 4: Joint Electrochemical and Spectroscopic Studies | $94,999 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Newman University | Navigating the University Experience | $80,000 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Osage Nation | Osage Ethnobotany Brochures and Educational Materials | $78,071 |
| Fazzino, Tera | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of California - Davis | Promoting the Purchase to Plate Tools for Food Demand and Diet Quality Research | $75,000 |
| Yi, Richard | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Examining the Effects of Gambling Volatility on Drinking Behavior | $73,107.75 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Engineering Administration / Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction for Housing in Florida | $67,494 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Expansion of Underground Injection Control (UIC) submittals to Kansas Online Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Website | $60,000 |
| Colella, Jocelyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | University of New Mexico | PIPP Phase I: Center for Emerging Pathogen Prediction and Integration | $57,797 |
| Bumble, Jennifer | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Children And Families | Kansas Navigator Series for Supported Decision-Making | $55,341 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Universities Space Research Association (Usra) | A Hot Meal: Mapping the Molecular H2 Feeding the Milk Way's Supermassive Black Hole | $51,700 |
| Flinders, Jennifer | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kickapoo Tribe | Kickapoo TOR Return to Community Program | $50,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | The Kansas Geological Society | Software Development for Kansas Electronic Data Integration | $50,000 |
| Schoeneich, Christian | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Abbvie | Activation Energies for Methionine Oxidation in Peptides Liquid Formulations | $50,000 |
| Yang, Xinmai | Mechanical Engineering / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University Of Missouri - Columbia | Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Consortium: MBArC | $44,585.73 |
| Outka, Uma | Law Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Barry University | Just Energy Transitions and Place | $41,272 |
| Lemon, Michael | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Stem Next Opportunity Fund | Million Girls Moonshot | $40,000 |
| Wang, Zijun | Pharmacology & Toxicology | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Bridging Award Year 2022 | $40,000 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | KU Endowment Association | P01 Planning Award: Metabolic Dysfunction in Alzheimer's Disease | $36,848 |
| Hugh, Maria | Special Education / Life Span Institute | University of Minnesota | Initial Efficacy Trial of a Group-Based Implementation Strategy Designed to Increase Teacher Delivery of Evidence-Based Prevention Programs | $35,524 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Childhood Housing Assistance and Adult Health: Life Course Critical Periods and Cumulative Impact | $34,775 |
| Rowe, Neil | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Kansas MIECHV Community Readiness Assessment (TO 23030) | $33,659 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | CARE Project Referral Network - Integrated Referral and Intake System (IRIS) | $33,546 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Frontiers: University of Kansas Clinical and Translational Science Institute | $33,503 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | National Radio Astronomy Observatory | NRAO Student Observing Support (SOS) Proposal to support Benjamin Moreau | $31,354 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | In Vivo Model for Assessment of Intestinal Adenoma-derived Extracellular Vesicles | $25,000 |
| Hansen, Amy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Unraveling Spatiotemporal Patterns in Watershed Nutrient and Sediment Yields Under Conditions of Ongoing Rapid Crop Conversion Using Direct Sampling and Remote Sensing Observations | $25,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Forecasting Streamflow and Groundwater Depletion with Deep Learning Models to Sustain Kansan Water Resources | $25,000 |
| Moody, Jennifer | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Herbal Medicine for Sick Ponds: Are Native Aquatic Macrophytes a Cheap and Easy Way to Mitigate Harmful Algal Blooms? | $25,000 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas | Identification of Tumorigenic APC mutant Interacting Proteins | $25,000 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Down-regulation of Interferon Signaling by Splicing Modulators | $25,000 |
| Kerr, Steffany | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Service League | Kansas Children's Service League Thriving Families Parent Cafe Data Analysis | $24,969 |
| Crossfield, Ian | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | The Life and Death of Ultra-Hot Jupiter WASP-12b | $24,686 |
| Mills, Elisabeth | Physics and Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Dissecting the Prototypical Starbursts NGC 253 and M 82 and Their Cool Galactic Winds | $21,183 |
| Dixon, Dan | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Colon Cancer Chemoprevention Through Inhibition of Exportin 1 (XPO1) | $20,810 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | SPeCTRE 2.0: The Sunflower Pediatric Clinical Trials Research Extension | $17,607 |
| Saint Onge, Jarron | Sociology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Center For Practical Bioethics | Building a Circuit of Civic Learning, Dialogue, and Connection to Advance Health Equity: A Deliberative Model, Materials, and Metrics | $16,076 |
| Watts, Judy | Journalism | National Communication Association | Investigating The Effects of Media on Racial Literacy Among Black, Latino, and White Families | $14,850 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022-2023 Second Fort Zarah Location Geophysical Survey Contract | $13,424 |
| Wilson, Sara | Mechanical Engineering | American Society For Engineering Education | Student Engagement in Engineering: How Has The Pandemic Impacted What We Do? | $5,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bourque, Katherine | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Examining Adaptive Peer-mediated Interventions for Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder and Limited or No Spoken Language: A Sequential Multiple Assignment Randomized Trial | $2,691,060 |
| Wang, Zijun | Pharmacology & Toxicology | National Institutes of Health | The Role of DNA Breaks and Repairs in Opioid Addiction | $2,295,000 |
| Song, Kwangok | Curriculum & Teaching / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Promoting English Learners Academic Achievement and Cultivating Educational Equity through Professional Development | $2,290,405 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | State of New Jersey Department of Education | New Jersey Dynamic Learning Maps Operational Testing Agreement 2022 - 2023 | $1,986,438 |
| Kingston, Neal | Educational Psychology / Achievement & Assessment Institute | EnterpriseKC | EnterpriseKC Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Cybersecurity Assessments (Project 1) and Cybersecurity Talent Exchange (Project 2) | $1,891,860 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $1,114,341 |
| Metz, Brent | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Strengthening Communities | $1,055,100 |
| Friis, Elizabeth | Mechanical Engineering | Continuum Educational Technologies Pbc | Smart Tools to Accelerate Research Translation by Uplifting Participants for the Central IDeA State Region (STARTUP Central) | $1,014,493 |
| Arnold, Emily | Aerospace Engineering / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | MRI: Development of a Reconfigurable Radar for UAS Applications | $997,861 |
| Walters, James | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Institute for Information Sciences | University of Alabama-Birmingham | Bill: IISAGE - Discovering the Mechanisms and Evolution of Aging Differences Between Females and Males | $989,587 |
| Metz, Brent | Latin American & Caribbean Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies: Strengthening Communities | $906,664 |
| Gomez Garcia Alvestegui, Daniel | Center Remote Sensing Integtr Sys / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | NASA Goddard Space Center | Cryospheric Uncrewed-Aerial-System Experiment | $903,730 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics and Astronomy | U.S. Department of Energy | Studying Nuclear Gluon Dynamics Using Novel Technologies with the A Large Ion Collider Experiment and at the Electron-Ion Collider Sponsor | $750,000 |
| Smith, Jon | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Geologic Mapping in Kansas for FY22 | $599,195 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | KU TRIO Training Program for Absolute Priority 2 (KU TTP-2) | $595,202 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas State Plan for Assistive Technology 2021-2023 | $462,353 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | University of South Carolina | Understanding Community Obesity Initiatives and Informing Tailored Community Interventions to Reduce Childhood Obesity | $447,809 |
| Hall, Jean | Life Span Institute | Langston University (Public University) | Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers: Equity Center in Employment Domain | $400,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Alion Science & Technology | Foundational Research for EW Operations | $380,873 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | Hosting Agreement: Six-week English Language Certificate Program for High School English Teachers (“Participants”) from Brazil | $312,620 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | Brigham & Women's Hospital Research Administration | Leveraging Heterogeneity in Autosomal Dominant AD to Elucidate Pathophysiology and Improve AD Biomarkers | $278,325 |
| Hefty, Phillip | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Washington | Functional Genomics for Chlamydia | $275,468 |
| Thompson, Jomella | Applied Behavioral Science / Center for Service Learning | USD 500, Kansas City | ThrYve Collaborative for Out-of-School Time Supports in KCK | $135,000 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Evaluating Long-Term HAB Trends at Wilson and Kirwin Reservoirs Kansas Water Office Contract Number 23-110 | $100,000 |
| Kaplinger, Brian | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Experimental Measurement of Granular Flow Free Colling in Microgravity | $94,512 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | OK Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Magnesium-Alumino-Liquid Phosphate-Based Concrete as a Repair Material | $92,699 |
| Mandel, Rolfe | Kansas Geological Survey | History Nebraska | A Statewide Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Predictive Tool for Locating Deeply Buried Archeological Deposits in Nebraska: (PHASE III-The Sandhills Region) | $88,515 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics and Astronomy | Zenoleap LLC | Energy Efficient Superconducting Neuromorphic Computing Circuits | $85,333 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging And Disability Service | Southeast Kansas Respite Care Services (SEKRS) | $66,100 |
| Bagwell-Gray, Meredith | Social Welfare | Arizona State University | Enhancing the Public Health Response to Domestic Violence in the Context of COVID-19 | $59,525 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Monitoring and Modeling Hillsdale Lake Under Changing Land Use and Climate Drivers to Assess Tipping Point of Hypereutrophic Lake Conditions - TO 22088 | $46,000 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Performance-enabling Soybean-derived Materials for Next-generation Solid State Lithium-sulfur Batteries | $44,982 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | Columbia University | In Vivo Analysis of Human Islet Graft Infiltration and Its Immunomodulation by Antigen-specific Therapy | $41,924 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Illinois | All Our Kids Network University of Illinois IRIS Proposal (Year 5) | $40,001 |
| Ecker-Lyster, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Wichita State University | WSU Southeast Wichita GEAR UP Project Evaluation | $40,000 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Duke University | Duke Center for HIV Structural Biology: Protein Analytics Support to Characterize Env Proteins | $38,250 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Production of Soybean Protein Concentrates with Enhanced Nutrient Profile for Pet Nutrition | $35,820 |
| Johnson, Rachel | International Affairs Administration / IP International Programs | U.S. Department of Education | Fulbright Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad | $35,225 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Personalized T Cell Therapy for Mantle Cell Lymphoma | $35,000 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department for Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-Parsons State Hospital | $35,000 |
| Clifford, Ryan | Design /School of Architecture & Design | Iowa State University | Crop Protection and Pest Management Competitive Grants Program - North Central IPM Center | $25,000 |
| McCoy, Kelly | Kansas Fire & Rescue Training | U.S. Department of Homeland Security | State Fire Training Systems Grant FY23 | $20,000 |
| Seo, Hyunjin | Journalism | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | Innovative Partnership for Community-based Art Experience Involving Women Transitioning from Incarceration and the Public | $20,000 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department for Children And Families | Head Start Collaboration Office Needs Assessment 2022 | $12,805 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Specific Chromatin Interaction of DNA Topoisomerase II Isoforms and Its Role on Regulation of Their Cellular Function | $10,000 |
| Sims, Megan | Biodiversity Institute | Bureau of Land Management Montana State Office | MT DAK Preservation & Curation of Fossil Vertebrates from the Late Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation | $9,062 |
| Scouffas, Anthea | Lied Center | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | NORTH & the Underground Railroad | $7,500 |
| Liu, Gaisheng | Kansas Geological Survey | Vista Clara, Inc. | Switched-Field Surface Nuclear Magnetic Resonance for Enhanced Detection and Resolution of Shallow Groundwater | $5,766 |
| Mosconi, Matthew | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Developmental Research Project Program Mentor Award | $1,894 |
| Forbush, Kelsie | Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Psychological Association | 2022 American Psychological Association of Graduate Students/Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship | $1,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | National Technical Assistance Center for Inclusive Practices and Policies | $10,000,000 |
| Alexander, Warren | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Office of Research | Research Rising | Trusting Our Worlds Physical, Digital, Social | $3,000,000 |
| Choi, Jeong Hoon | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Resources Aligned and Integrated for Student Equity (RAISE): Protocol for Grade-level Teams to Intensify Instruction for Students With or At-risk for Disabilities | $2,998,288 |
| Logan, Randall | School of Professional Studies | Intelligence Community Center For Academic Excellence | Kansas Coalition Intelligence Community Centers for Academic Excellence (KC-IC CAE) | $2,410,931 |
| Brady, Nancy | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | FXS: Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood | $2,230,022 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | The University of Kansas Child Care Access means Parents in School Program (KU-CCAMPIS) | $1,794,248 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Science Foundation | Data-Adaptive and Metamorphosis Machine Learning Architectures for Generative Protein Design of Metal Biosensors | $1,500,000 |
| Counts, Jacqueline | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Iowa Department of Public Health | Iowa Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting Quality Improvement 2023 | $1,064,746 |
| Dean, Evan | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Studying the Waiting List for Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and Physical Disabilities Home and Community Based Services | $971,608 |
| Adams, Glenn | Kansas African Studies Center / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Supporting Sustainable Connections: The Kansas African Studies Center | $967,444 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Rethinking Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in the Heartland for a Global and Digital Age | $843,580 |
| Lieberman, Bruce | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Biodiversity on a Changing Planet Implementation: Using the Past to Predict the Future: How Physiology and other Functional Traits Determine Survival and Extinction in W. Atlantic Mollusks | $799,138 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | New Mexico Public Education Department | New Mexico Dynamic Learning Maps: 2022 - 2023 | $690,440 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Seattle Children's Hospital | Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease Renewal | $590,226 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | National Institutes of Health | Molecular Sub-typing Breast Cancer Patients using a Liquid Biopsy | $568,979 |
| Davidson, Meghan | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | More and Less Social Comprehension: Child and Text Factors for Autistic Children | $556,279 |
| Fang, Huazhen | Mechanical Engineering | The Army Contracting Command | Reinforcement-Learning-based Aerial-Ground Multi-Robot Collaboration with Human-on-the-Loop in Complex Environments | $500,000 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kauffman Foundation | Kauffman 2022 Inclusive Ecosystems | $290,000 |
| Adams, Glenn | Kansas African Studies Center / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies: Supporting Sustainable Connections: The Kansas African Studies Center | $269,582 |
| Scott, Erik | Russian, Eastern European & Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies: Rethinking Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies in the Heartland for a Global and Digital Age | $269,582 |
| Kokobobo, Ani | Slavic, German and Eurasian Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | The U.S. Russia Foundation | Russian Studies Program for Kansas High Schools | $213,400 |
| Cizek, Meghan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet And Trust Fund | Community-Based Grants for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect (CBCAP) | $179,542 |
| Hui, Rongqing | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Computer and Network Systems Core: Medium: A Testbed and a Toolkit for Expediting Investigation of and Accelerating Advancements in All-Optical Neural Networks | $154,928 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics and Astronomy | Nasa | How Much Do Active Galactic Nuclei Host Galaxies Contribute to Cosmic Star Formation? | $144,455 |
| Tilden, Christopher | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environmt | Limited-Scope, Interim Year Maternal and Child Health Needs Assessment (TO 23016) | $126,556 |
| Unruh, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas-Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Developmental Research Project Program: Cortical-striatal Correlates of Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors in Autism Spectrum Disorder | $113,595 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Revenue | Open Records for Kansas Appraisers (OKRA) | $113,500 |
| Kindscher, Kelly | Environmental Studies Program / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | The Land Institute | Silphium Ethnobotany and the Cultural Dynamics of New Crop Development | $113,424 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Federal Communications Commission | Kansas Deaf Blind Equipment Distribution--Assistive Technology for Kansans | $109,480 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | American Society For Microbiology | An Evaluation of the Education-Workforce Continuum for Microbiologists | $80,501 |
| Hale, Richard | Aerospace Engineering | Wichita State University | Kansas National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program - Opportunities in NASA STEM FY 2020-2024 | $75,729 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Families And Communities Rising, Inc. | National Center for Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention | $70,000 |
| Tran, Dai | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-TRAN KU 23-16: Evaluation of Quality Control and Quality Assurance for Alternative Contracting Projects: Impementation Strategies and Key Lessons for KDOT | $62,329 |
| Kondyli, Alexandra | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | KTRAN KU 23-2: Understanding the Effects of Automated Truck Platoooning on Workforce in Kansas | $55,000 |
| Lequesne, Remy | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-Tran: KU 23-5: Legal Truck Load Ratings for Standard Reinforced Concrete Boxes and Rigid Frame Boxes for HL 93 Loading | $44,049 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Soybean Commission | Expanding Biodiesel Education and Utilization Through the Kansas Biodiesel Consortium | $42,670 |
| Liu, Lin | Mechanical Engineering | Wichita State University | SRI: Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience of Solid-State Battery Systems for Space Exploration via Precision Prognostics and Health Management | $40,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas On-Line Automated Reporting (KOLAR) project FY 2023 | $40,000 |
| Brook, Joanna | Social Welfare | OK Department of Mental Health & Substance Abuse | Oklahoma Partnership Initiative, Phase 3: Program Evaluation FY23 | $38,500 |
| Hall, Amber | Psychology | KU Endowment Association | Developing a Representative Cohort to study Midlife Risk Factors for Alzheimers Disease | $36,594 |
| Lindeman, David | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department For Aging And Disability Service | Active Treatment Training Program-KNI | $35,000 |
| Kelly, Kara | Biodiversity Institute | Environmental Solutions And Innovations Inc. | Archaeological Curation Services (FY22-23), Northwestern Division, Kansas City District | $33,155 |
| Johnson, David | Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase Receptor Type D Phosphatase Inhibitors for Stimulant Use Disorders | $26,775 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Engineering Administration / Institute for Bioengineering Research | University of Oslo | Multispecies Biofilm for Investigate Non-antibiotic Therapies in Dentistry (MISFAITH) | $25,100 |
| Sathyamoorthi, Shyam | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Syntheses and Biological Evaluation of Underexplored Antibiotics and Analogues | $25,000 |
| Ginsberg, Richard | Education Administration / Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S.D. 231 - Gardner Edgerton | Evaluation Audit of Gardner USD 231 Special Education Department | $20,000 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Wichita State University | Developing NASA partnerships for a Space Fungal Ecology Program | $19,272 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics and Astronomy | Jefferson Science Associates LLC | Radiation Hardness Tests of Glass Blocks and Software Development for Data Analysis and Simulations | $16,590 |
| Schoenen Jr, Frank | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Capitalizing on p53 Losses/Mutations in Osteosarcoma by Novel Compounds | $12,719 |
| Douglas, Justin | Molecular Structures Group / Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Lab | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Kansas-Idea Network of Biomedical Research Excellence Core Facility Support | $12,716 |
| Kemp, Peggy | Life Span Institute | Association of University Centers On Disabilities | Act Early Ambassador 2022 - 2024 | $12,000 |
| Rosa-Molinar, Eduardo | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Neuroglial Tumor Synapse Revisited | $10,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | Kansas Department of Wildlife And Parks | The Bunker Resurvey Project: A Century of Environmental Change in Kansas | $8,800 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KSKidsMAP, Integrated Referral and Information System Expansion | $5,623 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Pennsylvania Department of Education | Pennsylvania Dynamic Learning Maps: 2022-2027 Operational/Testing + Science Development + Additional Services | $18,245,344 |
| Wolfe, Michael | Medicinal Chemistry | Research Rising | Big Data for Drug Discovery | $3,000,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Research Rising | Growing KU's Interdisciplinary Strengths in Genomics | $2,999,272 |
| Colombo, John | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Life Span Institute | Research Rising | Advancing Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research at KU | $2,969,753 |
| Beck, Darin | Law Enforcement Training Center / CED Center for Public Safety Leadership | U.S. Department of Justice | Rural Law Enforcement Training | $2,000,000 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program | $1,615,330 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | U.S. Department of Education | University of Kansas Upward Bound Math and Science Program, Leavenworth and Turner | $1,488,005 |
| Burgin, Amy | Environmental Studies Program / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at the University of Kansas/Haskell Indian Nations University | $1,233,748 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship Program: Global Asia | $1,078,328 |
| Takeyama, Akiko | Women Gender & Sexuality Studies / Hall Center for the Humanities | U.S. Department of Education | National Resource Center: Global Asia | $1,053,688 |
| Kim, Taejoon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | National Science Foundation | Grant Opportunity for Academic Liaison with Industry: Computer and Network Systems: Medium: Communication-Computation Co-design for Rural Connectivity and Intelligence under Nonuniformity: Modeling, Analysis, and Implementation | $1,000,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Research Infrastructure Improvement Program: Bridging EPSCoR Communities: Mitigating COVID-19 Career Challenges with Research an Professional Development Training for Undergraduate Students and Mentors in Field-based Environmental Sciences | $999,835 |
| Gardner, Sara | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Children's Cabinet & Trust Fund | Kansas Workforce Registry | $775,000 |
| Agusto, Folashade | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Research Advanced by Interdisciplinary Science and Engineering: Incorporating Human Behavior in Epidemiological Models: Project Inclusion of challenges from Social Isolation Governed by Human behavior through Transformative research in epidemiological modeling | $711,148 |
| Mechem, David | Geography & Atmospheric Science | U.S. Department of Energy | Using Atmospheric System Research Observations and Large-eddy Simulation to Constrain Cloud Processing of Cloud Condensation Nuclei in Boundary-layer Clouds Over the Eastern North Atlantic | $618,448 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Kansas University Center on Developmental Disabilities: 2022-2027 | $577,735 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Advancement of Women in Academic Science and Engineering Careers Partnership: Empowering Scientists to Transform Workplace Climate Through the ADVANCEGeo Community-based Intervention Program | $482,617 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oak Foundation USA | Validate the Equity/Multi-tiered Systems of Support Tools to Assess and Monitor Progress for Educators, Schools and Districts | $450,000 |
| Peterson, Andrew | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Digitization and Enrichment of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa to Enable Urgent Quantitative Conservation Assessments | $425,065 |
| Bloom, Steven | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | New Catalytic Strategies to Make Non-proteinogenic Peptides | $382,500 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Institutes of Health | Science of Science Policy Approach to Analyzing and Innovating the Biomedical Research Enterprise: Examining the Career Barriers Confronting African American or Black Biomedical Scientists | $277,523 |
| Walker, James | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Facility: Next Generation Interoperable Data Infrastructure for Geoscience Sample Data: Interdisciplinary Earth Daya Alliance Reinvented | $265,042 |
| Hardy, Saralyn | Spencer Museum of Art | Institute of Museum & Library Services | Database and Application Development for Access, Education, and Research | $250,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | National Science Foundation | The Kansas University Refrigerant Ionic Liquid Separation (KU-RISE) | $249,551 |
| Butler Jr, James | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Kansas River Alluvial Aquifer Observation Well Network Maintenance and Modeling | $240,000 |
| Stearns, Leigh | Geology / Center for Remote Sensing & Integrated Systems | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Machine-enabled Modeling of Terminus Ablation for Greenland's Outlet Glaciers | $238,655 |
| Potter, Nicole | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Geological Survey | Preserving Kansas Geologic Data, Documents, Samples, and Aerial Photographs; and Surveying Drill Hole/Core Holdings Relating to Critical Mineral Resources | $185,619 |
| Fry, Andrew | Health Sport & Exercise Science / Achievement & Assessment Institute | Hewlett-Packard Company | Stress Responses During Collegiate eSports Competition: A Psycho-Physiological Examination | $127,978 |
| Barton, Jared | Social Welfare | Connecticut Department of Children & Families | Annual Subscription to Results Oriented Management Reports (Connecticut FY 2023) | $101,315 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Origin 3.4: Analytical Support Services for Origin Materials | $82,142 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | K-Transportation Research and New Developments Program KU 23-3: Evaluation of Multi-layer Polymer Concrete Overlays | $77,662 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Lockheed Martin | Dual-function Radar/Communications Waveforms and Multi-GHz Bandwidth Array Calibration | $74,999 |
| Marshall, Craig | Geology | Southwest Research Institute | Microhabitable Environments in Ice | $74,977 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering / Transportation Center | Kansas Department of Transportation | Evaluation of Rural Roundabouts | $62,500 |
| Atkinson, Simon | Office of Research | Kansas Department of Commerce & Housing | H2Hub Hydrogen Hub | $50,000 |
| Johnson, Michael | Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Sub-cellular Neurotransmitter Population Dynamics in Chemobrain | $35,000 |
| McCormick, Patrick | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Defense Engineering Corporation | Multi-Function Emission Characterization with Radio Frequency Digital Arrays in the Presence of Modeling Errors | $35,000 |
| Slusky, Joanna | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | K-INBRE Institutional Funds | Exploring Uncharted Regions of Protein Space in the Design of De Novo Barrels | $25,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | K-Inbre Institutional Funds | Single-nucleus RNA Sequencing to Uncover Sperm Developmental Alterations During Spermatogenesis Due to Genetic Conflict in Drosophila | $25,000 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainabile Engineering | W. L. Gore Associates Inc. | Measurement of Polymer Solubility in Supercritical Fluids | $20,930 |
| Hageman, Michael | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of New Mexico | Spray Drying Od Essential Oil-base Larvicides | $19,500 |
| Lundquist, Erik | Office of Research / Molecular Biosciences | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Service Contract for the Illumina NextSeq550 and MiSeq Sequencing Systems in the KU Genome Sequencing Core | $15,300 |
| Bartlow, Noel | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Near-Trench Community Geodetic Experiment | $15,288 |
| Gumbel, Roberta | Music | National Endowment For The Arts | To Support a Workshop Production of Never Quite by Composer Susan Kander and Librettist Roberta Gumbel | $10,000 |
| Siahaan, Teruna | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Kansas Institute for Precision Medicine | $7,238 |
| Kaplinger, Brian | Aerospace Engineering | KSF Space Foundation | Jupiter I Rocket Development Project | $7,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Emory University | Emory Home Visiting Program | $6,732 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture & Design | Perkinswill | Design of the Rush University Medical Tower and the Impact on the Perception of Provision Care | $4,600 |
| Shellhorn, Jeremy | Design | University of Montana | Designing and Testing Leave No Trace Signage Using Research-based Visual Communication and Outdoor Recreation Messaging Principles | $2,994 |
| Hanson Abromeit, Deanna | Music | Florida Gulf Coast University | Feasibility of the Musical Contour Regulation Facilitation Intervention to Support Emotion Regulation in At-Risk Preschoolers: A Clinical Pilot Study | $2,951 |
| Amlung, Michael | Applied Behavioral Science | Society for the Advancement of Behavior Analysis | Examining the Effect of Cannabis-Related Cues on Demand for Cannabis in Everyday Drug-Use Contexts | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Kansas NSF EPSCoR | National Science Foundation | RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures Driven by Social Equity (ARISE) | $23,097,733 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project ENGAGE: Enhancing Student Engagement to Facilitate Learning and Well-Being | $3,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2022-2023 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,328,436 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Periodic Coupled Cluster Methods for Optical Activity in Chiral Crystals | $456,483 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | FY2023: Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,422 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2022 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $296,811 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Non-MC Screening and Kinetic Studies | $186,567 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2022 | $167,328 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Guadalupe Centers | Research and Clinical Services for Underserved Kids in Kansas City | $147,846 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates Inc. | Stewart Field: Simulation and History Matching of Waterflooding and CO2 Injection | $136,563 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Shoreline Lacustrine Wetlands in Large Kansas Reservoirs: Status, Trends and Limiting Factors | $122,858 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Association of American Universities | Re-envisioning Evaluation of Effective Teaching Using Multidimensional Processes | $100,000 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation | Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Water Allocations in Kansas | $97,822 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | A High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Plk1-Interacting Checkpoint Helicase (PICH) | $91,180 |
| Dean, Bartholomew | Anthropology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Genetic and Environmental Causes of Diabetes Mellitus 2.0 in Amazonian Populations of Peru | $66,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars Year 9 | $60,600 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $56,510 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office | $53,025 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water Quality Monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas to Optimize Drinking Water Intake Depth | $45,672 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by RNA-Binding Molecules | $38,250 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees Year 9 | $31,815 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2022-2023 | $15,150 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | iAmHealthy Parents First | $14,832 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Targeted Mobile App for Youth Preparing for Bariatric Surgery | $13,285 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | Near-Memory Acceleration of Layer-5 Network Protocols | $10,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022 Grinter Place State Historic Site Geophysical Survey | $3,858 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Ornithological Society | Birds as Islands: Using an Avian Contact Zone to Investigate Their Parasite Population Structure | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sturm, Belinda | Office of Research / Kansas NSF EPSCoR | National Science Foundation | RII Track-1: Adaptive and Resilient Infrastructures Driven by Social Equity (ARISE) | $23,097,733 |
| Lane, Kathleen | Office of Research / Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Education | Project ENGAGE: Enhancing Student Engagement to Facilitate Learning and Well-Being | $3,000,000 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Maryland State Department of Education | Maryland DLM: 2022-2023 Operational/Testing (ELA, Math, Sci) + Additional Services | $2,328,436 |
| Caricato, Marco | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Periodic Coupled Cluster Methods for Optical Activity in Chiral Crystals | $456,483 |
| Noonan, Patricia | Center for Research on Learning / Life Span Institute | Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education | FY2023: Missouri Post-Secondary Success Project/ Social-Emotional Learning for All | $298,422 |
| Huerter, Aaron | International Short Programs | Institute of International Education | 2022 Eight-Week Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Pre-Academic Training Program | $296,811 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Origin Materials | Non-MC Screening and Kinetic Studies | $186,567 |
| Mease, Kristina | Business / Small Business Development Center | Fort Hays State University | University of Kansas Small Business Development Center 2022 | $167,328 |
| Gudino, Omar | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Guadalupe Centers | Research and Clinical Services for Underserved Kids in Kansas City | $147,846 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Samuel Gary Jr. & Associates Inc. | Stewart Field: Simulation and History Matching of Waterflooding and CO2 Injection | $136,563 |
| Baker, Debra | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Water Office | Shoreline Lacustrine Wetlands in Large Kansas Reservoirs: Status, Trends and Limiting Factors | $122,858 |
| Williams, Susan | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Association of American Universities | Re-envisioning Evaluation of Effective Teaching Using Multidimensional Processes | $100,000 |
| Roundy, Joshua | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Reclamation | Incorporating Climate Uncertainty into Water Allocations in Kansas | $97,822 |
| Azuma, Yoshiaki | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Minnesota | A High-Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Plk1-Interacting Checkpoint Helicase (PICH) | $91,180 |
| Dean, Bartholomew | Anthropology / Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Genetic and Environmental Causes of Diabetes Mellitus 2.0 in Amazonian Populations of Peru | $66,000 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Summer Scholars Year 9 | $60,600 |
| Neufeld, Kristi | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Roles for Adenomatous Polyposis Coli in Colon Injury Prevention and Wound Healing | $56,510 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Undergraduate Research Office | $53,025 |
| Harris, Theodore | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | City of Lawrence | Water Quality Monitoring in Clinton Lake, Kansas to Optimize Drinking Water Intake Depth | $45,672 |
| Wang, Jingxin | Medicinal Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Inhibition of SARS-CoV-2 by RNA-Binding Molecules | $38,250 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Star Trainees Year 9 | $31,815 |
| Ackley, Brian | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Campus Coordinator 2022-2023 | $15,150 |
| Swinburne Romine, Rebecca | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | iAmHealthy Parents First | $14,832 |
| Cushing, Christopher | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics | Feasibility, Acceptability and Preliminary Effectiveness of a Targeted Mobile App for Youth Preparing for Bariatric Surgery | $13,285 |
| Alian, Mohammad | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. | Near-Memory Acceleration of Layer-5 Network Protocols | $10,000 |
| Schneider, Blair | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas State Historical Society | 2022 Grinter Place State Historic Site Geophysical Survey | $3,858 |
| Moyle, Robert | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | American Ornithological Society | Birds as Islands: Using an Avian Contact Zone to Investigate Their Parasite Population Structure | $2,500 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers | Improving the Performance of Concrete Dam Infrastructure Through Use of Fiber-reinforced Polymers | $7,740,921 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | U.S. Department of Agriculture | Irrigation at the New 100th Meridian: Adaptation to Manage Climate Risks and Preserve Water Resources in the Eastern Kansas River Basin | $750,000 |
| Jackson, Timothy | Chemistry | National Science Foundation | Properties and Activation Mechanisms of Mn-hydroperoxo and Mn-alkylperoxo Complexes | $437,828 |
| Cox, Owen | Achievement & Assessment Inst | Michigan Department of Labor Economic Opportunity | An Analysis of Michigan's Deployment of TANF Dollars and Barriers to Access of Benefits | $378,767 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Chan Zuckerberg Initiative | Evaluation of the Science Diversity Leadership Program | $310,000 |
| Nguyen, Trung | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Largo Clean Energy Corp | Electrolyte Densification for Shipping (EDS) Process | $225,000 |
| Shiflett, Mark | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | The Chemours Company | Persistent Bioaccumulative Toxic (PBT) Chemical Separation and Destruction to Enable Recovery of Useful Materials for Value Added Applications: KU-Chemours | $218,037 |
| Mantzavinos, Dionyssios | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | Nonlinear Wave Models in Domains with a Boundary | $168,087 |
| Sereno, Joan | Linguistics | National Science Foundation | NSF Intergovernmental Personnel Act for Joan Sereno | $157,706 |
| Macdonald, Stuart | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | K-INBRE Bioinformatics Core Facility 2022-2023 | $152,850 |
| Volkin, David | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | Stanford University | Creating High-resolution, Epitope-focused Vaccines | $147,565 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Expanding the Public Health Workforce in Kansas | $113,670 |
| Han, Jie | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | MixOnSite USA Inc. | Experimental Study of Lightweight Cellular Concrete Fill for MSE Walls and Buried Pipes | $90,000 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | ATPH-Expanding the Public Health Workforce within the Disability Network: AT St. Grants | $80,000 |
| Lovell, Scott | Higuchi Biosciences Center | Louisiana State University | Small Molecules for Perturbing Iron Homeostasis in Bacterial Biofilms | $68,850 |
| Brockman, Jennifer | Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Evaluation of Programs at KU Sexual Assault Prevention & Education Center | $42,163 |
| Stinson, Philip | Classics / Hall Center for the Humanities | Harvard University | Salary Support for Completion of the Final Publication on the Excavations of the Julio-Claudian Sebasteion of Aphrodisias, Caria | $40,000 |
| Cai, Hui | Architecture & Design | Foundation for Healthcare Environments Research | Emergency Department (ED) Design for Pandemic Conditions: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic | $30,000 |
| Koon, Lyndsie | Life Span Institute | Research GO | Effects of Functional Fitness for Adults with Mobility-related Disability: A Pilot Study | $30,000 |
| Kwon, Gibum | Mechanical Engineering | Research GO | All-in-one Electrode Assembly for Single-step Electrochemical Conversion of CO2 and in Situ Collection of the Produced Alcohols | $30,000 |
| Tapia Takaki, Jesus Daniel | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | 958: Quantum-aware On-board Devices for Multiple Applications in Fundamental and Applied Research | $30,000 |
| Irvin, Dwight | Life Span Institute | Research GO | Using Data to Build the Capacity of Teachers to Support Preschool Children Not Making Progress in Learning Literacy | $29,965 |
| Colaco Morais, Ana | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Research GO | Mechanist Understanding of Direct Hydrodeoxygenation of Carbohydrates into High Carbon Alkanes Toward Sustainable Aviation Fuel Production | $29,943 |
| Harvey, Susan | Health, Sport & Exercise Science | Research GO | An Evaluation of the Purposeful Plates of Food Waste Reduction and Food Recovery Program | $29,929 |
| Sikes, Benjamin | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Research GO | Ernst 37083X: Space Stress Resistance of Microbial Communities | $29,793 |
| Hashemi, Morteza | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Research GO | Retention 43154X: Development of X-Planet: An Experimental Testbed for Advanced 5G and 6G Wireless Research at KU | $29,426 |
| Zhao, Hui | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | Retention 43154X: Electron Transfer in Artificial Mixed-Dimensional Heterostructures | $27,185 |
| Tell, David | Communication Studies | Research GO | Fund Code 958: The Emmett Till Memory Project | $26,503 |
| Grasley-Boy, Nicolette | Life Span Institute | Research GO | 958: Development of the Caregiver Report of Early Language Interactions (CRELI) Measurement Tool | $25,917 |
| Kirkpatrick, Allison | Physics & Astronomy | Research GO | Retention - 43154X: Observing Supermassive Black Holes with the James Webb Space Telescope | $25,148 |
| Chao, Haiyang | Aerospace Engineering | Research GO | Fund Code 958: Fire Fuel Load Estimation Using Multiscale Satellite and UAS Data Fusion | $25,000 |
| Poggio, John | Educational Psychology | KU Endowment Association | KU Retirees Survey | $25,000 |
| Unckless, Robert | Molecular Biosciences | Research GO | Hidden Avenues of Natural Selection in Drosophila Melanogaster: Selection on Sperm | $15,105 |
| Bankart, Charles | International Affairs | Institute of International Education | IIE American Passport Project | $4,125 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brewer II, Joseph | Indigenous Studies / Institute for Policy & Social Research | Alfred P Sloan Foundation | Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership | $500,000 |
| Cartwright, Paulyn | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Phylogeny of Cnidaria - Convergent Evolution of Eyes, Gene Expression, and Cell Types | $494,890 |
| McKenna, Thomas | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Perennial Agriculture Project, Llc | Interaction of the Perennial Grain Kernza and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Effects of Selection Pressure and Impacts on Soil Health | $305,343 |
| Swinburne Romine, Russell | Achievement & Assessment Institute | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Item Development for New Forms of Alternate ACCESS for ELLs (Alt ACCESS Advancing ALTELLA: Alternate Assessment Redesign | $264,487 |
| Scurto, Aaron | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Institute for Sustainable Engineering | The Chemours Company | Physical Properties and Phase Equilibria of Refrigerant Blends and Co-Blowing Agents in Lubricants, Polystyrene and Polyols: KU-Chemours Part IV | $254,422 |
| Miedlar, Agnieszka | Mathematics | National Science Foundation | CAREER: Acceleration Methods, Iterative Solvers and Heterogeneous Architectures: The New Landscape of Large-Scale Scientific Simulations | $237,272 |
| Darwin, David | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Construction of Low-Cracking High-Performance Bridge Decks Incorporating New Technology | $180,000 |
| McLean, Noah | Geology | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research: Catalytic Track: Improving Accuracy and Efficiency of Multicollector Mass Spectrometry | $128,642 |
| Sun, Hongyang | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science / Institute for Information Sciences | Vanderbilt University | Collaborative Research: SHF: Small: Learning Fault Tolerance at Scale | $124,999 |
| Walker, Dale | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Project Eagle: Early Head Start | $96,046 |
| Shogren, Karrie | Life Span Institute | University of California - Los Angeles | Autism Intervention Research Network on Physical Health (AIR-P) | $80,000 |
| Look, Kurt | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Corporation Commission | Kansas Online Automated Reporting (KOLAR) Project FY 2022 | $40,000 |
| Schultz, Jerry | Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Healthy Communities | $37,786 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Chemobrain: Agent Specific Effects on Hippocampal and Striatal Function | $34,916 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Terrametrics Agriculture Inc. | U.S. County Level Corn & Soybean Yield Modeling and Brazil & Argentina Soybean Yield Model Development & Implementation | $34,000 |
| Delisle, Jennifer | Kansas Biological Survey & Center for Ecological Research | Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks | 5-year Review of Species of Greatest Conservation Need | $30,478 |
| Desaire, Heather | Chemistry | Duke University | Novel Immunogens to Elicit Broadly Cross-reactive Antibodies that Target the Hemagglutinin Head Trimer Interface. | $30,300 |
| Greenhoot, Andrea | Center for Teaching Excellence | Howard Hughes Medical Institute | 2021 IE3LC: Dr. Andrea Greenhoot | $30,000 |
| Seybold, Erin | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Spatial Variability and Subsurface Controls of Groundwater Recharge and Nutrient Mobilization in Dry Streams | $20,000 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Simulating the Effects of Reservoir Management Strategies on In-stream Sediment Load, Streambank Stability, and Water Quality - 2022 | $10,192 |
| O'Rourke, Dennis | Anthropology | KU Center for Genomics | Genomic Assessment of Inuit Prehistory and Adaptation | $9,000 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | KU Center for Genomics | Mining Bacterial Genomes for Genetic Factors Involved in Microbial Drought Adaptation and Microbially-mediated Drought Tolerance in Plants | $9,000 |
| Devlin, John | Geology | Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership | Transverse Profiling of the Lakebed Seepage Velocities Across Southern Half of Unnamed Lake, near Bemidji, MN: 2022 | $6,060 |
| Vu, Hong | Journalism | Wichita State University | Creating Educational Technologies to Assist Refugee Learners: Project Education for All | $5,000 |
| Mollet, Amanda | Educational Leadership & Policy Studies / Achievement & Assessment Institute | American College Personnel Association | 2022-2024 ACPA Emerging Scholar | $3,000 |
| Tremblay, Annie | Linguistics | Language Learning: Journal of Research in Applied Linguistics | Testing the Transfer of Online /i/-/i/ Training Effect to Korean L2 Learners of English | $2,000 |
| Primary Investigator | Home / Admin Unit | Sponsor | Award Title | Total Anticipated Award Amount |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhao, Liqin | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Reshaping ApoE4 and Alzheimer's Brains with ApoE2 | $2,931,935 |
| Du, Heng | Pharmacology & Toxicology / Higuchi Biosciences Center | National Institutes of Health | mtDNA Leakage and STING-dependent Microglial Innate Immune Response in Alzheimer's Ddisease | $2,374,430 |
| Karvonen, Meagan | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma State Department of Education | $1,649,729 |
| Hasiuk, Franciszek | Kansas Geological Survey | University of Iowa | RII Track-2 FEC: Critical Resource Availability for the Future of the Renewable Energy Industry: Critical Minerals and Ground Water Resources in Iowa and Kansas | $827,539 |
| Subramaniam, Bala | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering / Center for Environmentally Beneficial Catalysis | Kansas Board of Regents | Kansas Board of Regents EPSCoR Grant Program (2021 - 2025) | $725,000 |
| Tanis, Emily | Life Span Institute | U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | State of the States in Developmental Disabilities: Ongoing Data Collection and Information Dissemination | $635,293 |
| Zipper, Samuel | Kansas Geological Survey | Virginia Tech | DISES: Toward Resilient and Adaptive Community-driven Management of Groundwater-dependent Agricultural Systems | $590,042 |
| McDaniel, Jena | Life Span Institute | National Institutes of Health | Increasing Word Learning Efficiency in Children Who are Deaf and Hard of Hearing through Retrieval Practice | $551,148 |
| Bardas, Alexandru | Electrical Engineering & Computer Science | National Science Foundation | CAREER | SATC: Bridging the Gap Between Research and Practice: Automation and Metrics in Security Operation Centers | $524,322 |
| Davis, Brandon | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | National Science Foundation | CAREER | We Dare Defend Our Rights: The Political Use of Law in the Enforcement of Voting Rights | $483,302 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Nanopore Methods for Determining Capsid Viability | $470,546 |
| Peelaers, Hartwin | Physics & Astronomy | National Science Foundation | REU SITE: University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates | $398,029 |
| Wagner, Margaret | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | North Carolina State University | Dissecting Molecular Plant-microbiome Interactions for Improved Drought Tolerance in Maize | $388,634 |
| Picking, Wendy | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Maryland - Baltimore | Adjuvant Development of the TLR4 Ligand BECC438 | $336,857 |
| Graham, Maryemma | English | National Endowment for the Humanities | Building Literacy and Curating (Critical Cultural) Knowledge in Black Humanities: BLACK DH | $325,000 |
| Gillam, Rebecca | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Health Foundation | Grant Writing Assistance to Kansas Non-profit Organizations 2022 - 2024 | $298,393 |
| Bennett, Caroline | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Federal Highway Administration | Improved Detailing in Steel Bridges to Prevent Constraint-induced Fracture | $265,166 |
| Nelson, Kenneth | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Department of Transportation | Data Access and Support Center (DASC) GIS Mapping Integration | $253,022 |
| Wu, Judy | Physics & Astronomy | ZenoLeap LLC | Uncooled Quantum Infrared Focal Plane Arrays | $250,000 |
| Naemi Jimenez, Pegah | Social Welfare | Missouri Childrens Trust Fund | Safe Sleep Grant Program Evaluation for the Missouri Childrens Trust | $248,528 |
| Colombo, John | College of Liberal Arts & Sciences / Life Span Institute | South Australian Health Medical Research Institute | The Effects of Feeding In-term Infants with an Improved Infant Formula on Neurodevelopmental Outcomes (IMAGINE) | $230,550 |
| Tamerler Behar, Candan | Mechanical Engineering | Archer Daniels Midland | ADM-KU Research Initiative on Enzyme Immobilization | $218,809 |
| Holmes, Cheryl | Social Welfare | Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute | Health, Food, and Family: Rural Systems and COVID-19 Decision Making | $200,000 |
| Hoque, Tamzidul | Electrical Engineering & Comp Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | National Science Foundation | Collaborative Research | Peek Inside the Box: Gamified Learning of Computing Hardware Fundamentals | $200,000 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Idaho State Department of Education | SECTR: Idaho Lives Project (ID-AWARE) | $161,503 |
| Berkland, Cory | Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Missouri - Columbia | Midwest Biomedical Accelerator Cconsortium: MBArC | $153,000 |
| Collins, William | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Modjeski Masters | Assessment of Ultra-gigh Toughness Steel for Highway Bridges | $129,896 |
| McCart, Amy | Life Span Institute | Oklahoma State Department of Education | Oklahoma AWARE South | $124,689 |
| Soper, Steven | Chemistry | BioFluidica | Develop POCT COVID-19 Instrument | $116,178 |
| Tilvawala, Ronak | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of California - San Diego | Engineering Native E. coli to Detect, Report, and Treat Colorectal Cancer - 1 U01 CA265719-01 | $111,275 |
| Geana, Mugur | Journalism | University of Kansas Medical Center Research Institute | Localized Health Approach to Boosting COVID-19 Testing and Vaccine Literacy, Access, and Uptake among Women with Criminal Legal System Involvement in Three Cities | $110,873 |
| Layzell, Anthony | Kansas Geological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Streambank Evaluation of the Cottonwood and Neosho Rivers above John Redmond Reservoir | $100,000 |
| Daley, Dorothy | School of Public Affairs & Administration / Institute for Policy & Social Research | University of Wisconsin-Madison | Climate Change and Health Equity: Examining the Intersection of Climate Change Risks and Health Equity | $99,539 |
| Harms, Randi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | MAVIS Project KCC Perinatal Behavioral Health Activities | $99,482 |
| Bigelow, Kathryn | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | MIECHV Continuous Quality Improvement FY22 | $92,159 |
| Sprague-Jones, Jessica | Achievement & Assessment Inst | Families & Communities Rising Inc. | National Center for Community-based Child Abuse Prevention | $85,000 |
| Bean, Alice | Physics & Astronomy | University of Nebraska - Lincoln | U.S. CMS Operations at the Large Hadron Collider | $84,850 |
| Sutley, Elaina | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Florida International University | Hurricane Loss Reduction | $63,394 |
| Ginther, Donna | Economics | The Reach Healthcare Foundation | The Costs to Kansans of Failure to Expand Medicaid | $55,000 |
| Schrock, Steven | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Department of Transportation | Effectiveness of Automated Pavement Restriping Systems: Phase I | $50,000 |
| Xu, Liang | Molecular Biosciences / Higuchi Biosciences Center | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Precision Cancer Medicine Targeting the RNA-binding Protein Musashi | $50,000 |
| Hardesty, Jo | Legal Services for Students | Internal Revenue Service | VITA Grant Project | $47,680 |
| Forrest, Marcus | Pharmaceutical Chemistry / Higuchi Biosciences Center | University of Missouri - Columbia | ImmunAdvisor: High-throughput T Cell Receptor Discovery for Affordable Commercial Personalized Cancer Therapies | $46,323 |
| Bumble, Jennifer | Life Span Institute | University of California - Los Angeles | Mapping My Health: A Community Mapping Intervention to Enhance the Self-Determination and Physical Health and Well-Being of Autistic Adolescents | $42,347 |
| Kastens, Jude | Kansas Biological Survey | Kansas Water Office | Flood Mapping Tool Development: Real-time Flood Mapping for Kansas Part 3 | $40,000 |
| Blunt, Shannon | Electrical Engineering & Comp Science / Information & Telecommunication Technology Center | Ierus Technologies Inc. | SBIR Phase I: Optimized Waveforms for X-band Missile-defense Radars | $40,000 |
| Von Esenwein, Silke | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | KDHE Master Agreement: Ripple Effects Mapping Task Order 22032 | $39,682 |
| Nguyen, Cambrey | Pharmacy Practice | Pharmaceutical Research & Manufacturers of America Foundation | Providing Accessible Written Medication Information for Patients Using Assistive Technology | $37,500 |
| Murray, Michael | Physics & Astronomy | Jefferson Science Associates LLC | Services of EIC Fellowship Winner, Alexander "Sasha" Bylinkin during the Period 2/1/22 - 5/31/22 | $36,000 |
| Jarmolowicz, David | Applied Behavioral Science / Life Span Institute | University of Kansas Cancer Center | Chemobrain: Agent-specific Effects on Hippocampal and Striatal Function | $34,916 |
| Adair, Mary | Biodiversity Institute | U.S. Department of Interior-Bureau Reclamation | Long-term Property Curation with the University of Kansas | $33,386 |
| Sack, Sara | Life Span Institute | Kansas Department of Health & Environment | Tiny K: Infant Toddler Assistive Technology Services | $29,584 |
| Elliott, Lindsay | Institute for Policy & Social Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | Teachers and Students for Community-oriented Research and Education: Linking Industry Partners, Faculty, and Teachers (TSCORE LIFT) | $28,767 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Immunovant Inc. | Surfactant Studies for Immunovant Formulations | $26,678 |
| Kamatuka, Ngondi | Achievement & Assessment Institute | Army Educational Outreach Program | Army Educational Outreach Program (UNITE) | $25,200 |
| Rong, Panying | Speech-Language-Hearing / Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | A Novel Multimodal Framework for Automated Objective Evaluation of Speech Impairment in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis | $25,000 |
| Seven, Yagmur | Life Span Institute | American Speech-Language-Hearing Association | Development and Initial Validation of the Family Need Assessment Survey | $25,000 |
| Bergman, Patricia | Economic Development / Office of Research | KU Medical Center Research Institute | The Sustainable Heartland Accelerator Regional Partnership (SHARP) Hub | $22,000 |
| Li, Xiaoli | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | University of North Dakota | Saturation Pressure and Swelling Factor for Oil/Ethane and Oil/Propane Systems | $20,499 |
| Bagwell-Gray, Meredith | Social Welfare | KU Racial Equity Fund | Promoting Cervical Health for Latina Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence: A Community Engagement Project to Culturally Adapt a Trauma-Informed Approach | $20,000 |
| Barati Ghahfarokhi, Reza | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Experimental and Modeling Investigation of Fluid-fluid and Rock-fluid Compatibility between Arbuckle and Lansing Kansas City Formations with the Purpose of Produced Water-Exchange Between the Two Form | $20,000 |
| Ukpokodu, Peter | African & African American Studies | KU Racial Equity Fund | The Search for Anno Domini MMXXI-I-VI | $20,000 |
| Husic, Admin | Civil, Environmental & Architectural Engineering | Kansas Water Resources Institute | Benthic Cyanobacterial Mats: A Potential Source of Harmful and Nuisance Compounds to Kansas Streams | $20,000 |
| Dhar, Prajnaparamita | Chemical & Petroleum Engineering | KU Racial Equity Fund | Promoting Retention for Underrepresented Engineering Graduate Students through Inclusive Teaching and Research Lab Practices | $19,997 |
| Christensen, Kara | Psychology / Life Span Institute | American Academy of Sleep Medicine Foundation (Aasm Foundation) | SLEEP-E: Sleep Education for Eating Disorder Treatment Providers | $19,900 |
| Rudnick, Gregory | Physics & Astronomy | Space Telescope Science Institute | Toward a Spatially-resolved Kennicutt-Schmidt Law in High-redshift Cluster Galaxies: The Interplay between Molecular Gas, Star Formation, and Stellar Mass with ALMA and HST | $19,339 |
| Van de Riet, Amy | Architecture & Design | KU Racial Equity Fund | Documenting the Work of Kansas Architect Charles McAfee | $18,387 |
| Soberon, Jorge | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology / Biodiversity Institute | KU Racial Equity Fund | A Multicultural Perspective to a Museum Exhibit: The Panorama at the Kansas Museum of Natural History | $17,502 |
| Chen, Yi Chun | Journalism | KU Medical Center Research Institute | RADx-UP: Improving the Response of Local Urban and Rural Communities to Disparities in COVID-19 Testing | $16,730 |